Hills Like White Elephants | Themes
Choices and Consequences
“Hills Like White Elephants” presents a couple in the midst of a crisis. Although unmarried, the girl is pregnant and the man who has made her pregnant wants her to have an abortion. His belief is that the choice for abortion will free them to return to the lives they had lived before the pregnancy. He does not want to share the girl with anyone, particularly not a baby. He believes that the consequences of having the baby will lead to the breakup of the relationship.
Jig, however, seems to have a more realistic assessment of...
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- Hills Like White Elephants: Ernest Hemingway Biography
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Hills Like White Elephants: Essays and Criticism
- Hemingway’s Use of Dialogue in ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’
- Hemingway’s Autobiographical Inspiration for ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’
- The Hemingway Heroine: Study in Female Characterization in “Hills Like White Elephants”
- Isolation and Estrangement in “Hills Like White Elephants”
- Tragic and Comic Elements of ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’
- ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’: Lean, Vintage Hemingway
- Hemingway Hills: Symbolism in ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’
- Leitmotif and Irony in Hemingway’s ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’
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