to be able to read and connect with the story that isn’t drawn out. “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” (Oates‚ 1966) and “Hills Like White Elephants‚ (Hemingway‚ 1927)”. Both of these short stories tell about decisions that have to be made through different conflicts and really just making decisions for what is best for oneself. In “Hills Like White Elephants‚” the author brings out two important characters. A man‚ who has no name; he is only known as an American man. And a girl‚ called
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story‚ "Hills Like White Elephants‚" involves a couple faced with a serious dilemma. The female character‚ Jig‚ is pregnant. Her lover encourages her to get an abortion‚ but she has second thoughts. By the end of the story‚ it is evident that Jig does not go through with the procedure and decides to keep the baby. In the story‚ Jig and her lover‚ known as the American‚ are at a train station having some drinks. The railroad runs through a valley with hills. On one side of the tracks‚ the hills are barren
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“Hills Like White Elephants” The text “ Hills like white elephants” under analysis comes from the book‚ the collection of short stories “Men Without Women “(1927) written by American author Ernest Hemingway. “Men Without Women” was Hemingway’s second book of short stories. It was published in October 1927 with a first print-run of approximately 7600 copies. The author is famous for his distinctive writing style‚ characterized by economy and understatement‚ influenced 20th-century fiction. Ernest
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The journey to address the couple’s white elephant is a long and tribulating path. “The Hills like White Elephants” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The narrator puts emphasis on the fact that the couple does not get along. This makes the audience feel uncomfortable which‚ in turn‚ shifts the focus from the problem at hand to their relationship struggles. In "Hills like White Elephants‚" the narrator portrays the couple as one that is constantly fighting. As a result‚ their bickering
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Three’s a Crowd: A Summary of an Analysis on “Hills Like White Elephants” The article “Moving to the girl’s side of “Hills Like White Elephants.” by Stanley Renner‚ appears in The Hemingway Review. Renner leads a solid argument that the girl may have not aborted the child. The following is a summary of his analysis. At first‚ the girl is sitting with “the American” on the side of the station that is out in the sun where the land is described as having “no shade and no trees” and is “brown
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Written in the 1920s‚ when society was still chiefly patriarchal‚ Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants presents a short dialogue between a boyfriend and a girlfriend at a train station. It is written in Hemingway’s famous Iceberg Theory‚ revealing only what is necessary to complete the story while leaving much of the detail up to the reader’s imagination. The short story about an American man and his girlfriend opens with a short description of the setting. Set at a railroad crossing near
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Ernest Hemingway’s story "Hills Like White Elephants" revolves around a conversation with a man and a girl at a train station while they are waiting for their next train. The man and girl fall in love and they travel unchaperoned. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discusses an operation that is inferred to be an abortion. It’s illegal‚ so girl will find someone from the street to do‚ thereby endangering her life and future fertility. The story describes a
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of literature‚ characters who love one another or share a friendship often face obstacles to their relationships. Sometimes the characters overcome the obstacle; sometimes the characters are defeated by the obstacle. In the short story “Hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway the two main characters; the girl and the American‚ aren’t quite in love but are in some sort of relationship dealing with a big obstacle of whether or not the girl should have the operation. Throughout this short
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figurative language‚ hills like white elephants representing Jig’s possibly unwanted pregnancy. These hills became the main subject of the story‚ “The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. ‘They look like white elephants‚’ she said” (Hemingway 563). A white elephant is a costly and useless item in which a person cannot dispose of‚ which means that Jig was questioning her desire to keep her baby. However‚ later it seems like she changed her
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for a long awaited sense of adulthood‚ “Araby” by James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” reveal young individual’s sense of innocence‚ despite the apparent presence of the mature and sophisticated emotion of love. “Araby” describes the trials of a young boy‚ infatuated with a woman‚ who quickly realizes the harsh realities of the world. Similarly‚ the girl in “Hills Like White Elephants” is faced with a difficult decision‚ due to her sexual maturity‚ or lack there of. The
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