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Hills Like White Elephants | Hemingway’s Autobiographical Inspiration for ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’

In the following essay, L. Ackroyd examines Hemingway’s Autobiographical Inspiration for ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants.’’

In ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants,’’ Ernest Hemingway reformulates and reassesses his own experiences in terms of male-female relationships and decisions about childbearing. The story bears clear marks of autobiographical inspiration, and Hemingway chose a rather odd time to write it: his honeymoon with his second wife, Pauline. The author would marry four times in total during his sixty-one years, and ‘‘Hills With White Elephants’’ reveals some of his inner conflicts about intimacy. To understand the...

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