`` Hills Like White Elephants `` By Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway developed his own style of writing and follows it in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”. Hemingway’s elegance in writing is such that he indirectly gives all of the information to the reader without making any judgment; thus allowing one to create an opinion about every minute detail of the story. Hemingway illustrates his foundations of writing in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by providing small clues that provide an indirect view of the larger meaning.

Relationships can be difficult, but a lot of couples work through the difficultly by supporting and helping each other. In the short story “Hills like White Elephants”, written by Ernest Hemingway, an unnamed American and a young woman, named Jig, are waiting for a train to arrive. Set in the mid-1920s, the couple is sitting at a bar drinking beer, and awaiting to travel to their next destination. Talking vaguely with each other, Jig describes the hills as “white elephants”, meaning an unwanted gift. During the story, the couple discusses an ‘operation’ that the man wants the girl to have, but she doesn’t want to, symbolizing wanting to keep their unborn child. In this story, “Hills like White Elephant”, the theme is the ending of a

Ernest Hemingway created the iceberg theory, by which he expects the reader to know a great deal of information from the little he expresses in his work. This style is evident in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” because the information the reader must obtain is hidden underneath the surface. This writing style often confuses the reader, but when the short story is read multiple times, the reader can connect to Hemingway’s unique use of a variety of essential elements. The relationship between the reader and the story is strengthened by the vivid imagery, appealing setting, multilayered characterization, and a deep symbolism expressed

I read a short story called Hills like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemmingway. This story presents to the readers a conversation between a young man and women who are located at a station, drinking beer, arguing whilst waiting for a train to take them to Madrin - the town in which we learn the girl is said to be having an operation.

In the valley there were hills brighter than the cars passing by on the highway. Red, green, orange, and yellow. On this side of the highway there was a small building with warm colors that people called “A taste of Barcelona”. When I first entered the building, I noticed that there was a Latin band playing salsa. To my right I noticed that a man asked a woman to dance. It was an interesting site. Men and woman dancing with each other on the wooden dance floor. It is so amazing how specific details in Short Fiction or any story can be. Take John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” for example. It starts out with a detailed setting to the reader that reveals certain elements that the reader could otherwise not see. This can also be seen in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”. The setting for both of these stories is revealed to the reader right at the start of the story. This begs questions such as Why do these authors reveal the setting so early? What does this entail? Revealing the setting of the story can contain a great deal of information before any of the hard facts are even mentioned. For example, a vivid description of the setting can allow the reader to see between the lines of the plane text and notice things that they could possibly miss through their first time reading. Setting can also help give insight to the audience by foreshadowing, giving hints to the major plot and even showing distinct elements that could not be found elsewhere. While some short

Ernest Hemingway has this uncanny, yet, clear and distinctive writing style, that has made him a successful author and a means of many criticisms. One critic in particular, David M. Wyatt, says that Hemingway has a way of making the beginning of his stories “raise the very specter of the end against which they are so concerned to defend.” (Wyatt). In his two short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A Clean-Well Lighted Place, Hemingway draws out this uncanny effect in anticipating the sense of an ending. He paints this very minimalistic style, “only centering on surface elements without giving explicit content of the underlying themes”(Wyatt) he creates. He wants readers to depict what’s below the surface, letting the crux emit through.

E.B. White once said, “There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.” This quotation means that nobody ever knows how complicated things are going to get, and on top of that they can get worse. One can agree with this statement because in life you can go through unexpected situations that really affect your life in a negative way, and in life things might get worse. Both Soldiers home by Ernest Hemingway and Hills like white elephants by Ernest Hemingway support the idea that Life is a complicated place. He portrays this through his main male characters of both of his story’s, The American and Harold, they both try to find the easiest way out of complicated situations.

The plot opens with an extended description of the scenery found in the setting of the story. As the characters will travel by train, Hemingway used this to formulate the description of the setting and to organize the concept of the story. He orders two beers from the bartender – one for him and one for the girl, whom he calls Jig. It is implied that the American and the girl have a relationship, and they are traveling somewhere to do something. They talk about an operation, which the American tells the girl that she will feel better and they will live happily together afterward. The American also shows the girl how much he cares for her, and the girl looks at the scenery of the station. They argue, and the girl feels tired, and this makes the American to stop talking. The story ends

In Hemingway’s story, he creates the setting in which he writes, “It was very hot and the express from Barcelona, would arrive in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes, and went to Madrid,” this setting creates the vision that the characters of the story are waiting in a train station somewhere in Spain. Further the story explains what the characters are doing, they are drinking and conversing back and forth about a seemingly life altering situation (Loveboat). There are two different sides to the station, one side is deciduous and lush with woods. The other side of the station is explained as being dry and not green, this sets the stage for the different arguments that the characters may have about the decision.

Ernest Hemingway published a short story in 1927 named “Hills Like White Elephants” taking place in Spain at a train station. Simple dialogue throughout the story between an American man and a woman who know each other whom are discussing an operation. Hemingway sets the couple in a situation that is critical in both of their life’s having to decide whether or not to have the operation. Using many examples of symbolism and themes such as making decisions, consequences, doubt and the ambiguity in this situation.

The Modernist movement was influential and international in literature but also in other art forms such as drama, art, music etc. The extraordinary movement began in the late 19th century and continued to blossom in the first half of the 20th century. ``Hills like White Elephants`` is a modernist short story by Ernest Hemingway one of the leading modernist writers of his time. Therefore will the following essay focus on characterization, failure of communication and suggested themes when it comes to ``Hills like White Elephants``.

“Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race,” as quoted by William E. Gladstone, supports ones thoughts that selfishness is what leads to most of our issues in the modern times. Currently, we are living in a generation that is filled with much greed and selfishness. However, one can say that selfishness is a trait that possess in all of us, but it’s the amount of selfishness that one can have to determine the type of person they are. For instance, most people who are selfishness tend to face many obstacles that life throws at them, some of which causes problems that can seem almost impossible to overcome. Many believe that just because a conflict can not be resolved sometimes they think that the best solution for them is by escaping them. However, running away from difficult situations is never the answer. In “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe the character American Man and Prospero ran away meaning escaping from their problems in the short story. This ties in with masculinism and feminism because of the way they posses their characteristic traits and how they respond to their situation at the end.

The central idea of Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is that disassociating the problem doesn't make it go away or any less present. The American and a girl were at a train station waiting for the train. The girl told the American that the nearby hills looked like white elephants, the American said he'd never seen one. After talking about beer, the American told the girl, whom he called "Jig", to get an operation. He said that the operation isn't serious and was really simple; then followed that saying that the procedure isn't even an operation. Jig asked what would happen after the operation and if the American would still lover her after having it done. The American said that he knew some people that have done it and even if she didn't want to do the procedure he would still love the girl. The couple goes back and forth about it. The woman from the bar tells them that the train is coming and they get ready to go.

One literary element used by Hemingway to cultivate his theme is setting. The couple is located in an unnamed area in Spain at a train station. The setting is connected to the white hills that represent their pregnancy, “The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry” (Hemingway 591). The narrator gives more of a detailed description of the landscape around the train station by saying, “The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees”

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