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Hills Like White Elephants | Tragic and Comic Elements of ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’

In this essay, Diane Andrews Henningfeld discusses the tragic and comic elements of ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants,’’ placing these elements within the context of modernism.

In 1927 Ernest Hemingway completed and published his collection of short stories, Men Without Women. The collection included several important stories, stories that have been closely examined by critics almost since the day of their publication. Among the stories in the collection, however, ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’ has become the most widely anthologized and the most frequently taught. The story continues to generate scholarly interest and heated debate among students.

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