elements in order to deliver a well written story. In the story, “Hills Like White Elephants”, writer Ernest Hemingway, focuses on individual vs. self-conflict, while writer Tim Obrien focuses on individual vs. individual and individual vs. self-conflict in his story “The Things They Carried”. This Literary analysis will attempt to show how each author through different writing techniques use literary elements to deliver similar core conflicts within each story. In Obrien’s story, “The Things They Carried
against blackness of licorice which Jig associates with Anis del Toro, the drink they are drinking (2002: 75-77). Bearing in mind the first interpretation, it should be contrasted with the hy-pothesis presented by Nilofer Hashmi. She points out that the hills may stand for a dream of a family and hope that sexual relationship with the man may transform into something more solid; on the other hand, the man has little empathy and he seems to destroy Jig’s dreams by displaying his cold and reserved response
Short Story Analysis with Close Reading of “Hills Like White Elephants” In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” the narrator tells a story of a man and a woman that are debating their big decision of an operation. This external conflict, from some of the context delivered by the author, is an abortion. There are a few phrases and key words including the title that lead to the readers understanding of the external conflict and the internal conflict of this short story. Ernest Hemingway
Comparative Analysis between Carver and Hemingway (Little Things V. Hills like White Elephants) Jacob Clayton Ernest Hemingway and Raymond carver have both been described as minimalist. Minimalism is defined, in the most minimal why possible as a style or technique that is characterized by extreme sparseness and simplicity. Hemingway is known as a master of minimalism, and one of its earliest sponsors and he accepts the title of a minimalist writer without question. Carver on the other hand,