because man and the rest of society downgraded them. Making women feel somewhat out of place and vulnerable. In both the short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Hemingway and Gilman convey the female characters as subordinate towards the demanding male characters, which caused tension and restrain in their relationships. The powerlessness of female characters is an important comparison between these two stories. In “Hills Like White Elephants” the girl, called Jig, and
of “Hills like White Elephants” allows the reader to hone in on the text and its linguistic artifacts without the interference of an overwhelmingly detailed plot. In this essay, I will analyze the grammatical structure of the short story, draw comparisons between the plot and the language, and examine Hemingway’s stylistic choices. Given the short length of “Hills like White Elephants”, the easiest linguistic element to spot is the repetition of sentences as well as the lexical arrangements. The