Hills Like White Elephants | The Hemingway Heroine: Study in Female Characterization in “Hills Like White Elephants”
In the following essay, D. Bray explores the “heroic” character of the female in “Hills Like White Elephants” and Hemingway’s attitudes towards women in general.
Ernest Hemingway is well known as a man’s man. In his life and in his writing, he occupied an extremely masculine world—a world of war, hunting, and bull fights. Hemingway’s macho characters are so strongly drawn that critics created a new prototype to define them: the “Hemingway hero.” This hero has almost always been a man.
But what are readers to make of Hemingway’s women? Many feminist literary critics find Hemingway hostile toward woman. Women, they argue, are portrayed as a corrupt influence on men, somehow diluting their masculine powers.
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