Hills Like White Elephants Literary Criticism

“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story of a pair of couples having an argument with an operation of whether the girl should do the abortion during their travel. The story shows the audience two different views and attitudes between two different genders--men and women. By using ethos, pathos,and logos, Hemingway gives people a social message that men were short of responsibility and encouragement to get into a family, and they were supposed change this situation by understanding and care more about women. Nowadays, as the time changed, the social message people get from the story change as well-- women are taught to be more independent.

The text “Letting the air into a relationship: Metaphorical Abortion in ‘Hills Like White Elephants” by Wyche David aims at analyzing and synthesizing the short story by Hemingway “Hills like White”. The analysis would provide new knowledge to readers of the short story or provide the readers with a new point of view of analyzing it. The subject of the text is to present his ideas on the short story and well as critique other critics who had previously critiqued it. The story illustrates broken relationships of Hemingway and the pain it caused him, which led him to write the short story. The whole text is therefore an analysis and synthesis of the short story written by Hemingway.

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In Ernest Hemingways short story, Hills Like White Elephants, there is a couple who has a difficult conversation at the crossroads waiting for their next train. Mostly, their conversation is about getting an abortion. The American, who is the male in the story, continuously tries to convince The Girl to abort their child while she is trying to please him. However, by analyzing throughout the story, the setting, characters, and symbolism affects the tale and gives the readers a sense of understanding and empathy towards the situation. All of the elements come together to create this emotional dialog more intriguing and heart breaking.

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.

Megan Moore Martens IB English III 19 November 2014 Nature Motifs in “Hills Like White Elephants” and “Out, Out- “ Nature imagery can be used as a recurring motif in many ways throughout literature. In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, a girl and a man sit at a bar, drinking while waiting on their train. As they drink, they discuss whether or not the girl should get an abortion, or keep the baby and changer her entire lifestyle. Throughout the course of the story, the girl is shown looking away at beautiful landscapes that surround her.

Though there are different ways to communicate with others, not all of them are helpful in certain situations. For instance, if two people do not agree on a topic their methods of communication could be poor. In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, The American and his girlfriend Jig are arguing over an issue. The issue may or may not be the abortion of their unborn child.

The amazing "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway’s (1899-1961), who was a famous American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, basically shows us a couple standing in a train station, near the Ebro River, waiting for a train from Barcelona to Madrid. While waiting for the train, the couple takes the opportunity to order some drinks and enjoy the scenery (it is the moment when the girl says that the hills of the valley look like white elephants). However, as soon as they begin to talk, they disagree and discuss aspects of an operation that the American man suggest and which the girl thinks to do. The discussion intensifies until the girl asks the American to shut up. At that moment, the bar attendant tells them that the

Ernest Hemingway uses many literary devices in his short story Hills Like White Elephants to enhance its meaning and impact. A literary device is a technique a writer uses to enhance and produce a special effect in their writing. Literary devices are very important because they help the reader understand a story, and it's characters. The literary devices used to make Hills Like White Elephants a richer and more impactful story are setting, symbolism, and irony. One important literary device used in Hills Like White Elephants is setting.

The landscape Jig sees on one side of the train station has hills and the “country was brown and dry” (par. 8).  Which makes me think that if Jig continues on in life the way she is and gets the operation, then she will not be fully happy with life.  The other landscape Jig sees on the other side of the train station has a field of trees along the “Ebro” River and beyond that is mountains.  The interpretation I get from this side of the train station is if she continues with the pregnancy and doesn’t get the operation, then she could be happy with what life throws at her.  The green side with trees and river could be Jig’s life if she decides to not get the operation and to therefore change her life for the

Abortion is a topic that is very crucial in society. In today’s day in age, abortion is a very controversial topic to come across. As you read the short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” written by Ernest Hemingway you tend to pick up that the story is in fact about abortion, but the author of the story does not imply the word abortion throughout the literary piece of writing. Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and a journalist. Hemingway’s stylishness of writing had reflected on 20-century fiction.

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” is a story about an American man and a girl having some beers outside a train station in Barcelona while waiting for the train that goes to Madrid. As the couple is drinking, the man starts to convince the girl to have an abortion only if she wants to, he said. After asking a couple of questions about the abortion, she agrees and that is only because she does not care about herself anymore. The man does not want her to do that for that reason. The girl is desperate and feels everything is lost. The man tries to comfort her by saying they can have everything but he would like her to have the abortion. The girl becomes worried and asks him to stop talking, but he kept on talking.

What is the purpose of the trip the two travelers are taking? (The narrator never tells us, but the careful reader can deduce this with relative certainty.)

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