Analysis Of Hills Like White Elephant By Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" relies on symbolism to carry the theme of either choosing to live selfishly and dealing with the results, or choosing a more difficult and selfless path and reveling in the rewards. The symbolic materials and the symbolic characters aid the reader's understanding of the subtle theme of this story. The hills symbolize two different decisions that the pregnant girl in our story is faced with. Both hills are completely opposite of each other, and each "hill" or decision has a consequence that is just as different as the appearance of the hills.

In Hemingway 's "Hills Like White Elephants" I found many layers of symbolism, and a fascinating psychological underplay afoot between his two characters. It begins with the girl 's comment about a line of white hills seen in the distance, which she compares to white elephants. The man responds with the comment "I 've never seen one."

“Hills Like White Elephants” can be very confusing and difficult to understand because it is an indirect conversation between two people about something important. Hemingway does not give any direct details about the characters or the situation. However, if we read the story carefully and pay attention to the symbols, the depth of the story will surprise us. That is the magic of symbolism; it takes something simple and gives it layers that only entice and excite the

Throughout the story, Hemingway incorporates various themes for the reader to take away from the reading. The relationship between the man and the girl exemplifies the theme of man and woman, as well as the theme of decision and indecision. Hemingway depicts this relationship and life together as the train that the couple is waiting for. According to the University of Michigan website, “Train symbolism is related to social life, destiny, journey, and fatalism (“Train”). In “Hills Like White Elephants,” the train represents the journey of life, with or without the unborn child. Together, the decisions of either choosing life for the child or

“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was published in 1927 in Men Without Women, Hemingway’s second collection of stories. This story is about a traveling couple who are at a train station in Spain. While waiting for the train that is headed to Madrid, the couple decide to stop at a bar. The girl notices how beautiful the surrounding hills are. Also, she states how the hills resemble white elephants.The man does not seem to be interested and continues to drink. The man, the American, brings up an “operation” that he wishes the girl to proceed with. He constantly asks her if she is ok with it. She assures him that she will do it if he wants her

Everyone’s analysis is different with this story and I believe that is what Hemingway wanted. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Ernest Hemingway uses dialog to reveal the central conflict between the two characters and their different worldviews. The setting of this story is very important and tells a lot. The first two sentences of this story will provide you with a descriptive image and will later on help you make an inference.

In this essay I shall be analysing Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, and how he shows his character Jig gaining power in her relationship with the American, throughout the story. Hills Like White Elephants has created a <huge> amount of debate since its publication in 1927 around what actually happens after the story ends and what Hemingway was trying to convey about Jig and the American’s position within their relationship. It needs to be kept in mind that the attitudes surrounding woman were different from today’s and that many people saw Hemingway as a misogynist, and still do. However, I strongly believe that Jig is shown to gain power in her relationship with the American throughout the story and that by the end of the story she has decided against getting an abortion, even though she is pushed towards having one by the American.

Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story about a man and woman who are faced with a difficult choice to make. The story has no internal monologue or deep explanations to express the characters thoughts, feelings and motives. Hemingway instead, uses symbols throughout his story to express the deeper meaning behind the American man and the girl’s conflicting decision.

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants” follows a young couple having an argument about an operation at a train station. The man insists the girl have the operation, but only if she feels that she wants to. The girl, Jig, does not want to have the operation. The setting of the short story helps reveal the point of view of the two characters. The setting’s significance is shown through the imagery of the landscape, the symbolism of the train tracks and through dialogue between the two characters.

Ernest Hemingway, in his short story, Hills like White Elephants, published by Charles Scribner’s son in 1927, talks about two individuals at a train station having what appears to be a normal conversation. This story has many hidden messages that Hemingway makes obvious when analyzing the short story. The use of symbols in Hills like White Elephants is important to the plot line and to the hidden meaning of the story. Despite many viewing this short story simply as two lovers at the train station, the couple of topic is actually communicating the act of having an abortion that they are about to commit. Hemingway creates a scene of two lovers in a café waiting for a train.

In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” I found many layers of symbolism, and a fascinating psychological underplay afoot between his two characters. It begins with the girl’s comment about a line of white hills seen in the distance, which she compares to white elephants. The man responds with the comment “I’ve never seen one.”

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” tells the story of a couple discussing the scenery and arguing about an operation while sitting at a train station awaiting their train ride to Barcelona. Throughout the story, Hemingway drops hints about the real issue between his characters, which is that the woman is pregnant and the man wants her to have an abortion. The central conflict in “Hills Like White Elephants” is about abortion, and everything in the text serves to highlight the distance between the man’s view (that the woman should abort) and the woman’s view (that she should not). Hemingway creates this conflict without directly addressing the issue of abortion; instead, he uses a combination of his

Hemingway utilizes the symbolism of white elephants to illustrate the difficulties of decision making and lack of communication in a relationship. After primarily seeing the comparison in the hills and white elephants, the girl changes her perspective. “They’re lovely hills”, she said. “They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees.” “Should we have another drink?” “Alright” (Hemingway 2).

“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Hemingway wrote this story and published it in 1927, after he was wounded in World War I. The story is about a couple, an American man and a young girl the man calls “Jig”. The couple, while on their many traveling adventures, is at a train station waiting on a train to Madrid, discussing an important event in their relationship. The usual fun, carefree relationship is now troubled and at a crossroad.

“The Hills like White Elephants” takes place in a train station in Spain. “The station [is] between two lines of rails in the sun”(Hills Like White Elephants-Litarary Analysis ). The rails run through a river valley with hills on one side of the valley; dry and barren and those on the other side are described with imagery of living, growing thing; in choosing whether to abort or to have the child, the couple have to choice between two