Comparison of Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Cat In The Rain

makes her feel so “silly as to make him uncomfortable just for a whim” while she is

"Hills like White Elephants" is not the normal story where you have a beginning, middle and end. Hemingway gave just enough information so that readers could draw their own conclusions. The entire story encompasses a conversation between two lovers and leaves the reader with more questions than answers. Ernest Hemingway was a brilliant writer. People that study Hemingway's works try to gain insight and draw natural conclusions about Hemingway and his life. Hemingway led a difficult life full of martial affairs and misfortune. Some of these experiences have set the foundation for Hemingway's greatest works. This essay will analyze the influence

Tone and style both have to do with the writer expressing his/her attitude while writing and connecting it to the subject and audience. When writing, the author has to choose what kind of style he/she want to use, for example, the word choice, language, sentence structure and arrangement. All of those examples will create the image, mood, and meaning of the text. The tone of the text can be many things, funny, logical, serious, emotional, etc. The tone also has to do with how the writer wants the reader to respond.

In the readings about men and women, there were two stories that stuck out for me. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and "Shiloh," by Bobbie Ann Mason. To me these stories had many peculiar similarities. I felt that there were so comparable that there seemed to be a true connection between these two novels.

“What does it mean?”, a question most would ask themselves after reading the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. In both the stories, the authors left the importance of the events lie beneath the story, through the voice of the narrator. These two stories often cause the reader to question the story 's sole purpose, and leaves them with many questions since the important themes are strategically placed beneath the surface of the story, in the subtext. Both Faulkner and Hemingway leave a great amount of information unsaid, yet provide enough evidence for the reader to conclude what the story must actually be about. These two stories have a similar theme; something along

Children can often be a deciding factor in relationships. Dealing with this conflicts may happen when a child in unexpectedly conceived. No matter what the decision is, it could very well change your life. In the two short stories “Hills Like White Elephants” and “Good People “both women are faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Neither one of them wants to give up the chance of being a mother, but they have to decide on what is the right thing to do. Jig and Sheri has felt love at one time or another. The America tells Jig” it’s the only thing that has made them unhappy (592)” and Lane doesn’t love Sheri (220)”. Although the American confesses his love to Jig, he is still demanding that she has an abortion because it has made their relationship so unhappy, While Lane may not be “in” love with Sheri, he still cares for her.

When we hear the word metaphor we immediately think of books, poems, and music. We often cannot define the word but it gives us an idea of what it might mean and how they are used. We have probably read a book that had metaphors but they pass right through our eyes without seeing one. Metaphors are mostly seen and used in short stories. They are important because they help enhance a reading in many different ways.

Compare and/or Contrast the problematic marriages and/or romantic relationship in “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Swimmer.” The story “Hills Like White Elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway and the story “The Swimmer” written by John Cheever had lots of similarities and differences, Which made them unique and similar at the same time. There is one thing that is clear which is that all the protagonist in these stories have troubled relationships.

between her mind and her heart. Her mind is telling her to keep the baby, but

Earnest Hemingway’s Life and “Hills like White Elephants” Yuan Jung Hemingway fully reflects his personal experiences in his writing. He had a problem with making a relationship with a woman. He hated his mother, and divorced four times. To be specific, women are described as a wicked being who could destroy men’s life. Also the phase of the time such as the World War I and the sensation of a ‘new’ woman has influenced on the story.

In “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway tells a vague yet concentrated story about a crisis in a couple’s relationship that is left open to the reader’s interpretation. The story opens at a Spanish train station, with a brief description of the scenery at the river Ebro and the white hills that stand tall behind it. A couple have drinks at the bar while awaiting their train, bickering about seemingly nothing. The two characters never actually say what they are arguing about, forcing the reader to infer what is taking place. It seems as if neither of them are really saying what they actually want to each other. Jig, the girl, makes the seemingly innocent statement that the hills

In Hemingway's “Hill's Like White Elephants,” it tells of a couple making a decision. The American and Jig are stopped at a train station waiting for the train to Madrid to get an abortion done, which is hinted at based on what Jig says about White Elephants. From the train station they could see what their destination looked like and how the place they came from, Barcelona, looked compared to it. The way the land looked in both Madrid and Barcelona represented the outcome of their decision. One was dry and dull while the other was bright and full of life.

Currently, abortion is an undergoing issue that has been argued back and forth about for years. In Earnest Hemingway’s short story “Hills like White elephants” he unconsciously addresses the choice of whether the young couple should terminate the unborn child or not. The man does not want a change in his life; furthermore, he believes that a baby will bring unhappiness and restrict them from many of the things they enjoy. Jig is stuck between making herself happy and making the American happy. The choice that she makes will be life changing. There are many difficult choices in life, as it is hard to tell what the right choice is until the choice is already concluded.

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

How difficult is it to make a decision that could potentially ruin one’s life? Ernest Hemingway’s explores this question in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants.” The story is a consice conversation between an “American man” and a girl. The names of the characters as well as their relationship status remain unknown. For the entirety of the short story, the characters sit in a train station perturbed about making a decision on a potential operation of the girl. The man and the girl go back and forth debating what they should do about the operation. The story ends on a cliffhanger, leaving the reader unaware of the girl’s final resolution. In Hemingway’s short story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” his use of symbols, innuendos, and dialogue create a high level of tension for the man and the girl which ultimately conveys the difficulty of the decision that the couple must make together.