Hills Like White Elephants | Style

Setting
In ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’ the setting serves both to locate the story in space and time and to function as an important symbol. The story is set in Spain, in the valley of the Ebro River. More immediately, the setting is a railway station ‘‘between two lines of rails in the sun.’’ The American and the girl sit at a table. On one side of the station, the land is parched and desolate. A number of critics have noted the similarity between this landscape and that of T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. On the other side of the...

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