discover the hidden meaning in the words. In his autobiography, A Moveable Feast, Hemingway declared: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know” (qtd. in Phillips 28). He insists to present the truth to draw readers into the story. Special techniques in writing also provide engaging experience for readers’ creativity to spark. In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway leaves the characters’ feelings and thoughts fully up to the readers’
This study brings together two writers who are usually not thought of in the same context. Hemingway is typically discussed under the mantle of modernism and ranks as one of the great American short story writers and novelists, whereas Ernest Gaines is usually discussed under the category of African American and/or Southern literature. It is my purpose to demonstrate how the two writers can be read and taught together, as they are linked by many common themes and stylistic elements. However, their