Hills Like White Elephants And The Lottery: A Literary Analysis
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Ernest Hemingway’s, “Hills Like White Elephants” and Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery” are both very similar pieces of literatures. In both stories, the belief by the characters is what dictates most the story. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants”, we are introduced too two characters; an American and a woman, whom he calls ‘Jig’ who are at a train station in middle of vast valley in Spain. In the beginning of the story, the woman indicates that the hills on the horizon look like ‘white elephants’, in which the man responds with confusion. The American and the woman are in middle of their journey traveling the world, however they are presented with a dilemma. The American is keen on the woman getting an ‘operation’,