Linton Hemingway's Inglan, A Bitch And Hills Like White Elephants

Close interpretation of the story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway leads the reader to an issue that has plagued society for decades. Understanding of the human condition is unveiled in the story line, the main setting, and through the character representation. The main characters in the story are an American man and a female named Jig. The conflict about abortions is an issue that still faces society today. Architectural and atmospheric symbolisms are used to set the mood and outline the human condition. The love bond between the man and Jig is strong; however, the more powerful bond between Jig and her unborn child is sacred.

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.

We are all too familiar with the components of a classic, romantic bestseller. Boy and girl meet, boy sweeps girl off her feet, and they both ride off into the sunset to live happily ever after; a tale as old as time. However, this isn’t a realistic portrayal of love. Real love is messy, complicated, and even unfair at times. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” (1927) offers a more accurate portrayal of romantic functionality that is still applicable today as it was back then. Written in the pre-feminist movement of the 1970s, these authors have provided a rich base of female suppression under weight of the male counterparts in play. While we explore the depths of this story, and utilizing this theme as our base, we are able to identify the similarities of powerlessness and vulnerability of the women, the stubbornness and selfishness of the men, symbolism, and setting, and the contrasts such as the rhetorical style and endings in both stories as well.

Ernest Hemingway’s, “Hills Like White Elephants”, was first published in August of 1927 but it was not until briefly after the lone publication of this esoteric short story that it received the notability it deserved; accompanied by many other encapsulating short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants” in addition to the thirteen other short stories published by Hemingway in October of 1927 made up his second collection of short stories, “Men Without Women”. Nevertheless, William Shakespeare’s, “Hamlet”, was the longest play ever written by the Englishman estimated to be written sometime within the late 16th and early 17th century; “Hamlet” is revered not only as one of Shakespeare’s greatest literary work but also as one of the most

Ernest Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants leaves the reader’s mind to wander throughout the piece. The story’s set place in a railway restaurant involving two individuals that are, apparently involved in a less than stable relationship. Contemplating the outcomes of an event that neither of them is really sure that he or she wants to embark on, is the mystery Hemingway reveals. Both individuals are leaning toward different directions, but is not sure the direction they desire is the one they truly believe is right. The uncertainty of their interactions is the viewpoint of the story. Hemingway is opening our eyes to the fact that relationships are uncertain, but there must be a common ground for both parties to stand on.

in the periodical transition and later that year in the collection Men Without Women. The

In Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills like White Elephants” the story is about a young couple that is waiting at a train station. There are many elements in the story, such as disconnection, innocence, and irresponsibility. The girl express grief that their life consists of nothing but "looking at things and try new drinks” (7-8). The lacks of mentioning of the girl’s relationship with the man suggest that their relationship is not essentially serious or significant. While the couple waits at a train station they order large glasses of beer. This may be because they are trying to forget something that they do not want to think about. As they drink beer the woman comments that the distant white

unwanted pregnancy can be seen as an unwanted threat to the stability of the couple’s

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

"Literature is a luxury: Fiction is a necessity" (Chesterton). Literature is a single phenomenon that will always remain in the lives of people throughout the years. According to Andre Maurois, "In literature, as in love, we are astounded by what is chosen by others." Fiction Literature is one of the most fascinating types of Literature. There are many types of Fiction Literature read across the world and with much selection, the greatest are short stories. Out of those, one very memorable short story is called "Hills Like White Elephants". The author, Ernest Hemingway, has created many intriguing stories with his recognizable syntax. The specific style he is known for may be childish and use only a few small lines, but nevertheless 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.

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.

In the hills like white elephants by Ernest Hemingway there is a young girl who is about to under go a "simple operation" Hemingway illustrates the girl as a character who is helpless and indecisive about what's going to happen next. the woman's tone in the story makes her appear as if she is being manipulative into having the operation. "I know you wouldn't mind it, jig it's really not anything. it's just to let the air in," it's what the man said. The girl shows that she is confused because of the decision making. The man makes the girl feel stressed and she tells him, “would you please please please please please please stop talking” (Hemingway 478). The woman's role in the decision making in the story appears to be somewhat independent;

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.