The Use Of Lens In Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants

case with Ernest Hemingway as he was well-known to scholars to have his short stories filled with male-chauvinist characters either abusing or disregarding weak and helpless women. However, Bauer, a professor of English and women’s studies, believes that the characterization of Hemingway as an abuser and having a blatant disregard of women is almost entirely created by the scholars and readers of his stories. With an analysis of Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” and “Hills Like White Elephants”, Bauer attempts

Ernest Hemingway is a male author of fictional stories whose work has been controversial regarding the way he portrays women. This paper will explain how feminist scholars view Ernest Hemingway’s fictional stories and why. The way female scholars view Hemingway’s stories are important because readers have criticized Hemingway for use stereotyping women in his work and others have enjoyed his work. Therefore, it is important to learn about the different view female scholars have on his fiction. Lawrence

C2C Eric J Holm 10 Dec 2015 Dr. Van Nort Final Essay: “Hills Like White Elephants” Jig’s Abortion through the Historical and Textual Lens “I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in” (Hemingway 213). In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” an abortion is debated through subtleties, similes, and symbols. The abortion is never explicitly mentioned, but instead Hemingway leaves the reader to conclude what this “simple operation” really is (213)

Going Green: Effect of Nature on Humanity in “Hills Like White Elephants” Located in the Northeastern region of France, the Ebro is just as famous for its literary recognition as it is its geographical significance. Due to Ernest Hemingway’s writing of the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” in 1927, the valley especially has been critiqued, analyzed, and studied for nearly a century. The valley itself makes up almost 17% of Spain itself, and is called “one of the main physiographic units in

1970 and 2013 there has been almost 52 million abortions. These staggering statistics encompass women ages fifteen to forty-four. In 2013 alone the abortion ratio was 200 to every 1,000 live births that’s 20-percent (CDC). Ernest Hemingway’s literary story “Hills like White Elephants”, portrays a man and woman discussing a “simple” procedure. They go back and forth with the man trying to persuade and the woman being torn between saving the relationship and what she actually wants. Unlike the poem “The

various different situations, but still endure generally the same kind of placement in the hierarchical ladder in society. Ernest Hemingway, Claude McKay, and Joseph Heller present constructions of women in different societies, situations, and time periods that, despite their apparent differences, are ultimately very similar nonetheless. In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”, the girl is constructed to be seen as unrespected, weak, and conforming in order to please the man she is with. The way