Essays on Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ acts as an archetype for a perennial issue we have all more than likely encountered: a lack of communication within a relationship. Hemingway narrates this short story through a continuous conversation between the story’s two main characters, the American…

Every successful author has various writing approaches within their pieces of literature. These writing techniques are much like an artist’s signature at the bottom of a canvased masterpiece, to indicate to viewers and spectators, or in this case, readers, that a piece of work belongs…

“Hills like white elephants” which is a 1927 short story written by Ernest Hemingway is a great and critical work. The coversation about the operation between two main characters: an American man and a girl called Jig at a station in Spain while wating for…

Differences in Perspective in Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” “There are no facts, only interpretations” – Friedrich Nietzsche Interpretations of individuals and life vary. In Edith Wharton’s short story “Roman Fever,” Alida Slade and Grace Ansley each visualize the…

Women and Gender Identity Throughout human history, women have been depicted as the weaker gender, evidence being in the literary communication left by those who gave themselves the opportunity to record such depictions. Since women are the weaker ones, then by definition (there being only…

“Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway successfully communicated its purpose through the use of round characters, symbols, and a theme. The purpose of this story was to show the struggle between the girl and her boyfriend. These two characters struggled throughout the story to…

Ernest Hemingway shows remarkable writing and hidden meaning in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants”. Not only does this story demonstrate a well-written plot, it also distributes different message to anyone who interprets it. To one reader, the story may just consist of two…

Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” depicts a crucial moment in a couple’s relationship. When the woman discovers that she is pregnant, the couple is torn between getting an abortion and keeping the baby. Throughout the story they fail to come to a decision…