Poor Communication In Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants

as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives. This era is especially interesting because it is a time in modern society when women were still treated as second-class citizens. Two interesting short stories, "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" focus on a woman's plight near the turn of the nineteenth century. Both authors, Hemmingway and Gilman, leave an open end to the stories and allow readers to create

In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” Hemingway sets the scene with an ordinary couple drinking alcohol waiting on the train to arrive, as we can assume the story undergoes a major decision needing to be made by the characters. We read about a distressed couple contemplating what to do on the issue of what seems to be an abortion, “an awful simple operation.” More seems to be going on during the story than what initially meets the readers eye, and the author leaves a lot of room for interpretation

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” portrays a young couple on a standstill about a major decision at a rest stop. The American man and young girl are embarking on a journey to complete an operation that will result in a life-altering outcome for the couple. Hemingway conveys the turbulent nature of any relationship and how poor communication could push partners on opposite spectrums through the initial hesitance the girl possesses, the American man’s unwavering determination

the freezing waters, but instead the unseen structure twice its size that lurked beneath the surface. Ernest Hemingway does the same thing to his readers that the iceberg did to the titanic. In Hemingway’s writing it is undeniably what lies beneath the surface, what remains unsaid, that truly shakes the reader to their core. Like other American writers, such as Mark Twain and Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemmingway worked as a journalist before beginning his career in literature. As a rule, journalists

TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS The purpose of Text Interpretation and Analysis is a literary and linguistic commentary in which the reader explains what the text reveals under close examination. Any literary work is unique. It is created by the author in accordance with his vision and is permeated with his idea of the world. The reader’s interpretation is also highly individual and depends to a great extent on his knowledge and personal experience. That’s why one cannot lay down a fixed “model”