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Hills Like White Elephants
There are many ways you could carry out an analysis of this story. The story's title and Jig's line, early in the story—"they look like white elephants," (describing the faraway hills)—present...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the setting/environment of the South plays an intricate cultural and existential role in the life of the main character, Miss Emily Grierson. But in Ernest...
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Hills Like White Elephants
1. Writing style is not something that is based on gender, so to consider Hemingway’s prose “masculine” is problematic. However, he has popularly been portrayed as a “man’s man,”...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway believed that leaving out important details in his stories (often called the "iceberg theory") tended to make them more powerful. In his novel The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway leaves...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Hemingway's code hero is a man who could be identified as a man's man. He likes to drink, have affairs with women, engage in physical activities such as hunting or fishing. He is stoic and...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," most of the narrative bubbles below the surface of the actual writing, and it takes a thoughtful and insightful question to bring this bounty of...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The American and his girlfriend Jig have come to a train station in Spain near the Ebro River (rivers often run through Hemingway's stories). At first, they seem like a happy-go-lucky couple who...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The term "white elephant" is commonly used to describe a useless or burdensome possession. In Asian folklore it is said that white elephants were sacred, but because of their sanctity could not be...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" focuses on the dialogue between a man and a woman while they are waiting for a train. The dialogue at first appears to be innocuous small talk...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In the biography, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences, James R. Mellow suggests that all of Hemingway's stories had a basis in the writer's life. At the time he was writing "Hills Like White...
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Hills Like White Elephants
"Jig" is the name given to the girl in Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants." The American, her lover, calls her that toward the beginning of the story, but Hemingway refers to her as...
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Hills Like White Elephants
This story is all about communication and how people do it and how effective it is or isn't. To infer what Jig is thinking in the story, readers need to examine not only what she says out loud, but...
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Literature
"Hills Like White Elephants" is Hemingway's short story about an American couple, presumably on vacation in Spain, discussing a very difficult topic. Actually, they are doing their best not to...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In "Hills Like White Elephants," Hemingway makes masterful use of the objective point of view. In so doing, he brings the reader deeper into the conversation of the main characters because the...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Earnest Hemingway was well known for his “iceberg” writing style, where most of the meaning is “below the surface.” A modernist writer, Hemingway wanted to depict things as they really were...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In "Hills like White Elephants," the man is perhaps called "the American" because Hemingway intended for him to represent the traits of traditional masculinity in 1920s America. We can see this...
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Hills Like White Elephants
I believe that when the man and the girl say, "Everything tastes like licorice," this can be considered a metaphor, even though it contains the word "like" and might be construed as a simile....
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Hills Like White Elephants
In this story, the American and the girl, Jig, are a couple in love who travel around, seemingly carefree. And although this story consists mostly of dialogue and small talk, the couple are...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In Ernest Hemingway's story, "Hills Like White Elephants," there is nothing explicitly stated that the couple is talking about an abortion. You are right about that--the textual evidence isn't...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
There are really very few connections between William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants". Shakespeare's play was first performed on...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The most interesting thing about Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is not the problem facing the American and the girl, but the way in which the story is told. The style is completely...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The two people seem to be in the middle of nowhere. The hot, barren setting with the bleached mountains in the background is nearly surrealistic. This is a junction. They are waiting to transfer to...
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Hills Like White Elephants
It would seem that to do a compare-and-contrast essay on Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants" you would be almost forced to compare and contrast the two main characters with respect to...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, the woman, Jig, and the American are lovers, engaged in a sexual relationship. We do not know if they are married, but the...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The significance of the title is twofold: one, a white elephant gift is a gift that nobody wants. This is symbolic of the unwanted pregnancy of the girl and the American. Early in the story, she...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" was published in 1927, and to some degree her indecision reflects the cultural attitudes of the period. In the story, Jig and a man who...
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Hills Like White Elephants
A thesis statement for a short story establishes the theme and tone of the text that follows, and expresses a conclusive point that the text will presumably validate. A thesis statement for Ernest...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Hemingway is quite skilled at developing a tone of communication between both main characters that displays an existence in different realms. Both speak in what is almost dual monologue. While...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway’s short story Hills like White Elephants is easily one of the more stilted and melancholy of his work. The plot, about a man and woman, the latter apparently pregnant, waiting...
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Hills Like White Elephants
One of the most significant points of comparison between both short stories deals with subject matter. Both works address the challenging reality of how couples progress when the issue of an...
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Hills Like White Elephants
I would like to suggest that you take the unpopular position that the American and Jig are married. Most people who have commented on this story believe they are just living together. I can offer a...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The American and Jig have been leading a casual lifestyle in which they travel leisurely and party. As Jig notes, "I wanted to try this new drink. That's all we do, isn't it--look at things and...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Prior to getting on the train at the end of the story, the couple argue about whether or not Jig should have an abortion. The American is quite persistent and falsely understanding; he continues to...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The purpose of the trip is not mentioned directly in the text of "Hills Like White Elephants." As in many of Hemingway's stories (e.g. "The Killers"), the reader is put in the position of an...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The girl (Jig) says that the drink tastes like licorice because it is made with anise and might have a licorice taste to it. She notes all things that one (she or the American) might wait for, such...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The man who is described only as the American is confronted by a problem which threatens his way of life. The "girl" is pregnant and he wants her to have an abortion. She is obviously the more...
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Hills Like White Elephants
I cannot see anything particularly admirable about Mrs. Mooney. It seems to me that James Joyce wanted to portray her as a vulgar woman who used her naive daughter to entrap Bob Doran into...
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Hills Like White Elephants
A story written almost entirely in dialogue, "Hills Like White Elephants" is an example of Ernest Hemingway's objective and concise prose that presents an unstated tension, a style known as The...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Now, this is an interesting question. The Real (plural: Reales) is a unit of Spanish currency used from the mid-14th century to 1864, when it was replaced by the escudo, and then by the peseta in...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In "Hills Like White Elephants," Hemingway puts the reader in the position of a voyeur and an eavesdropper. The reader can only obtain information from what is done and said by the two principal...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The speaker in this excellent short story is a character who is external to the story, and not involved in it. As a third person narrator, the speaker is notable by his extremely detached...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In American culture, a white elephant is a possession that is useless and a burden to its owner as it is often expensive to maintain and difficult, if not impossible to dispose of. Thus, it is...
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Hills Like White Elephants
These are two excellent short stories, though arguably there are different and perhaps more pertinent ways to compare them. Examining the protagonists through the theme of choice seems to highlight...
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Cathedral
The central similarity that can be identified in terms of theme between these two excellent short stories would be that of relationships. Both stories present us with couples who are struggling or...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In a story told entirely in dialogue, Hemingway's characters' feelings are revealed only through their tightly controlled, edgy conversation. Consequently, there is a certain ambiguity as to the...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Consider the fact that nothing is really resolved in the story. There is little satisfaction in the ending of the story. The American might be satisfied, but is not really reflecting anything...
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Hills Like White Elephants
From the conversation that takes place between Jig and the man called the American, it becomes clear that he wants her to have the abortion because he doesn't want to get tied down by a baby. It...
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Hills Like White Elephants
I tend to think that the state of the relationship between both characters in Hemingway's short story is one that is in trouble. Either way, this relationship does not seem to possess the lasting...
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Hills Like White Elephants
"Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story where the dialogue and the words are extremely important. The plot/situation is revealed through the dialogue. The tone and personality of the...
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Hills Like White Elephants
I would make sure that one does not err too much on the side of reading into certain elements of the short story. Hemingway's work is so complex and so thick with implications regarding the...
