develop his characters in “Hills Like White Elephants”. Instead of discussing his characters' dilemma directly, Hemingway uses symbolic words like “white”, “two”, “beaded curtain”, “dry side” to create a setting that suggests the struggle that the characters are engaged in while making a life-changing decision. The word white, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is defined as “free from color, free from spot or blemish”2. I feel Hemingway uses the word “white” in his story to create just
In “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway uses the theme of Communication to potray an issue that has plagued society for decades. Understanding of human condition is represented by the beautiful setting in the short story. The main characters are the American man and a female named Jig who share a strong bond of love; however, the more powerful yet sacred bond is between Jig and her unborn child. A long time ago, our society was filled with moral and ethical values but times have changed
Upon an initial reading, Earnest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is a very vague story of a man and a woman, named Jig, going back and forth in dialogue about their “predicament,” that is not specifically named. However, with the use of descriptive settings, Hemingway is able to give great detail as to what the couple is discussing. Without it being specifically named, the reader is able to infer that the woman, Jig, is pregnant, and the man wants her to get an “operation,” assumed to be
Hemingway in his “Hills Like White Elephants” through the limited narrator describes that a decision is a thought or an idea put into action by circumstances. What makes us arrive at certain decisions and deal with their consequences is the question that keeps popping up in the story. Whether a decision or choice is right or wrong is not the question and is rather an irrelevant topic because what is right for one person is completely wrong and unacceptable for another. Instead the importance in
Drinking and Giving In Can people love each other if they have an issue of abortion between them? Ernest Hemingway’s short story entitled Hills Like White Elephants is about a girl named Jig and an American man who are having a romantic relationship and are suddenly confronted with the question of having an abortion. While the couple is drinking, Jig asks many questions about her man’s proposition that they should do this. Inferences are conclusions reached by fact or evidence, and the conclusions
Daniel Silberstein Professor Jane Schmidt English 220 Sec 33 11 Oct 2014 Between Rails in the Sun In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants”, by Ernest Hemingway, the reader is presented with a terse and elegant story that captures the imagination but remains ambiguous in its final interpretation of whether or not Jig and the American have an abortion and remain together after they depart the station. Through a narrative that emulates the parched landscape in which it takes place, the reader
We all share a fundamental drive to communicate. Communication has become the process of understanding and sharing meaning. In Ernest Hemingway’s, “Hills Like White Elephants” the American and the girl Jig, struggle to communicate with each other. The characters in the story live in a world without traditions and established values. They are in a situation that neither of them is able to resolve, due to a lack of proper communication. The dullness of the man and the desperation of the girl reveal
In his short story “Hills Like White Elephants”, Ernest Hemingway brings the reader to a train station somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid. An American and a girl are having an argument that could be seen as trivial on the surface, but is actually a painful discussion about aborting their child. The much older American tries to persuade the young girl to give the baby up in hopes that he might be able to leave her without any obligations left behind, but she seems to want to keep the child and
A thorough evaluation of the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway reveals a young woman blossoming to a decision maker in her life after finally getting out from under the adverse influence of a relationship with a man she previously thought loved her unconditionally. She finally gets fed up with living under the man’s shadow; allowing him to make all the decisions, letting him talk ceaselessly as he tries to convince her of the rights of his ways, and even letting him decide
start from innocence.” This quote can be applied to the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants”, in the sense that the underlying topic between the main characters is a baby. The unborn child would represent innocence, and the struggle of whether or not to keep the child can be seen as something wicked. The short story is full of literary elements that help to form a plot that is both intriguing and disconcerting. Three literary elements that are most prominent in this story are mood, symbolism through