Hills Like White Elephants Rhetorical Analysis

Wyche also shows that writers like Hemingway may be influenced by what is going on in their personal life. Wyche also aims to relate Hemingway’s life and that of the author. Towards the end of the text, Wyche provides a comparison of Hemingway’s real life and the author and notes that he always had a way of feeding his artistic side from his personal experiences. Hemingway’s work was a mirror of reality and much of his reality. Wyche as an author therefore aimed at showing the relationship between and an artist’s

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 “Hills Like White Elephants”, Hemingway describes characters little. This short story basically consists of a dialogue between a man and a woman. In the short story, Hemingway barely provides the information of characters so that this short story can be generalized in one sentence: a man and a woman are waiting for the train to Madrid on the roadside. Because of the hot weather, they keep drinking beer, while discussing an operation. Actually, in this novel, characters are always talking about this vital operation. This operation exists as

In Hemingway’s “Hills like white elephants” there are very subtle details that are noticed only when you dissect the reading and look past the text that is written on the page. We are introduced to both the “American” and the “Girl” early on in the story. As the story progresses on you begin to notice how different each person is and how that lack of knowledge can be almost child- like in nature. The age of either person is never mentioned, although when reading the story you get a strong sense that the “American” is significantly older than his female counterpart. Her inexperience is first noticed when she begins to ask about alcoholic beverages and how they compare to the taste of licorice (Hemingway 591).

In the beginning of the story, Jig makes a very subtle and almost unnoticeable comment that the hills surrounding Spain’s Ebro Valley resemble White Elephants. Historically, in India and many parts of the eastern world, white elephants were gifts of “great honor and importance, but just like most gifts, they had a large price that went along with them. White elephants were extremely hard to care for and have no apparent use or utility for the person receiving it, and because of this many people who received them went into financial debt and some even lost everything that they owned. To

Earnest Hemingway provides a different way to reveal his characters without going into great detail about the characters in “Hills Like White Elephants”. Hemingway does not describe the characters appearances or their body language. Hemingway though decided to reveal the characters by their dialogue. By giving more details within the dialogue it reveals the character of the man and the girl in the story. It is revealed in the dialogue the dynamics of the relationship of the man and the girl. It is shown that they care for each other, even though they have some struggles. You can tell they care about each other, because in the story it is said “I’d do anything for you” and “I don’t want anybody but you”. While also revealing the strife between

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."

Through similar reasons, Fitzgerald’s writing proposes a clear understanding of the work and exactly how it was meant to be portrayed. This is furthered in the wordy and grandiose descriptions found within his dialogue such as found in “Winter Dreams.” However, Hemingway continues his theme and lack of clarity through his extremely rough dialogue presented in A farewell to Arms. This minimalist approach to dialogue provides the reader little to understand and makes it seem as if the characters are having an inside conversation that is not supposed to be heard. Writing of this kind results in a lack of comprehension of the overall storyline as well as the plot. As a result of these differences, vastly different levels of understanding and clarity are present in the works of Hemingway and

Ernest Hemingway was a prolific writer. His short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” shows the tense situation between a man and a woman on vacation. Hemingway chooses to be vague in many ways. He never gives real names to his characters, nor explicitly states where they are besides hinting that they are in Spain. Additionally, he leaves it entirely to the reader to discover what the couple is discussing. By only providing information to the reader through only the dialogue of the two central characters, he creates a unique --and often advised against -- way of telling a story that engages his audience by challenging them to discover what he means.

In my opinion, the hills and valley are symbolic of her teetering decision to go through with the operation. When looking at the hills she is more likely to question the

“The Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story that is about an American man and a girl called Jig. They are sitting at a table outside a train station, waiting for a train to Madrid. While they wait they order drinks and have a heated ongoing conversation over whether or not Jig will have an operation that would be of great significance to their relationship. “The Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway has two important symbols in the story, the hills and the drinks both of which help to give us a better understanding of what is going on between the American and his girl.

“Hills like White Elephants” focuses mainly on setting and symbolism. The setting in the story is used to describe the mood of the story. The relationship between the American man and the girl is at a crossroads. While they are in the bar they point out that there were two different sides to the valley. One side being bright and full of light and the other being shade less, dark, and dull. This symbolizes the woman’s pregnancy with is what they are debating about. Also, the white elephant symbolizes something no one wants in this story, the girl’s unborn child. The girl’s comment in the beginning of the story that the surrounding hills look like white elephants initially seems to be a casual, off hand remark, but it actually serves as a piece

The Journey of Mind in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” In the 1920s, America witnessed a dramatic change in social, economic, and cultural aspects. Many writers began to write to reflect the change of the society. Hemingway is one of the outstanding writers in this period. He got a big influence on American literature with his Ice Berg writing style.

Many authors, critics, and everyday social readers define Ernest Hemingway as the prime example of 20th century American literature. Hemingway’s works transcend time itself, so that even readers today analyze and criticize his works. His works, of course, have drawn praises and animosity from all corners of the globe. Critics often applause Hemingway on his short simple prose, for which many people recognize him for. His writing builds upon the masterful usage of “short, simple words and short, simple sentences” (Wagner, 3) to create clear and easy to

     The story is told in the objective point-of-view.  "Hemingway's approach to his story is different; he approaches it as a journalist approaches a news story, from a focal point somewhere outside of his characters" (Jaffe, 209).  The author tells the story only as an observer.  He does not tell the reader what the characters are thinking,