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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
One question per day, please. According to Enotes: A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of...
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Hills Like White Elephants
This is an interesting question that has more than one answer. The best and most accurate way to understand Hemingway's title is as a double symbol that also represents the overarching theme of the...
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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
The only mention of any name in the story is this name, Jig. It is what the man of the relationship calls the woman of the relationship. He uses it conversation in the following exchange:'It's...
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Hills Like White Elephants
As symbols, the hills which resemble "white elephants," the treeless railroad tracks, and the station, represent the characters and their relationship as they imbue the narrative with meaning. In...
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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
The most beautiful irony in the story comes through the imagery. The American and Jig are discussing an abortion. When Jig gets up from the table to look out over the landscape, all she sees are...
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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
How about this: "Hemingway's classic story "The Hills Like White Elephants" appears to be simply a realistic description, but is in fact highly symbolic"? That would allow you...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The short story “Hills like white elephants” talks about a girl called Jig who is waiting to take the express to Madrid with her American boyfriend. As they wait, they talk about an operation that...
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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
One of the most basic conflicts present in the Hemingway short story is how two people balance the demands of their own needs with the realities of their relationship. I think that Hemingway draws...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The irony of the story lies within the title. As the couple has their tense discussion of an unwanted pregnancy and a possible abortion, they overlook a hillside that the girl says reminds her of...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The expression itself, "hills like white elephants," is actually a simile, not a metaphor, since it uses "like." White elephants are used to refer to something unwanted or undesired. In 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
"Hills Like White Elephants" is a story about the end of a relationship. The themes mainly grow out of this scenario. One theme of the story is dealing with difficulty, or dealing with unplanned...
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Hills Like White Elephants
I think that the third person narrative point of view is used in a stellar manner in Hemingway's short story. One of the elements that makes the third person point of view so effective is that it...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, the main character remains nameless and is only referred to as The American. There are a few reasons why Hemingway may have chosen to keep this character...
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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
Hemingway use the number two for two purposes (no play on words intended). The first relates to the American man and the girl, whom he calls Jig, being a couple. This reinforces the man's...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The reason we can claim this story conversation, or dialogue, is about an abortion is because the American man gives a clue to the topic substance. He says, "It's just to let the air in." "It's...
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Hills Like White Elephants
One of the chief literary devices Hemingway uses in "Hills like White Elephants" is dialogue. The story consists almost entirely of a dialogue between a man and woman waiting for a train. We never...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” the young woman called “Jig” is being pressured by her older male companion, usually called simply “the man,” to have an abortion....
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Hills Like White Elephants
The tone of a piece of literature can be defined as the emotion or attitude that the author conveys about the piece through his words. Tone can be hard to separate from mood, however, as a rule of...
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Hills Like White Elephants
This story has often been discussed in eNotes. I think most readers have agreed that the man and woman are going to Madrid for her to get an abortion. They have evidently been discussing the matter...
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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
There can be many argumentative prompts to come out of the work. One significant one would be whether Hemingway's construction is in favor of women's predicaments, against it, or refuses to give...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The reader is meant to be unclear on the end of the story. Hemingway purposefully left the reader to wonder what Jig's decision would be. It is fairly obvious that there would not be a happy ending...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In “Hills Like White Elephants” the American man, and the woman, “Jig,” are a couple sitting outside a café’ drinking beer while they await a train. These characters are discussing a pregnancy and...
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Hills Like White Elephants
One of the main ways that Hemingway creates tension in this unforgettable and, in many ways, uncompromising story is through his use of dialogue. It is clear that what is going on beneath 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
The man and the girl he calls Jig are lovers. It is possible that they are married. They have been traveling around Europe together for a long time, judging from all the hotel labels on their...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The most interesting and most touching image in the story has to do with the bead-curtain. At one point Jig reaches out and rolls a couple of these wooden beads back and forth between her fingers....
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Hills Like White Elephants
This is a tough question on a couple of levels. The first is that any discussion of a central issue of the short story remains unfulfilled because Hemingway does not render much in way of absolute...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The hills represent objectification and symbolize permanency while simultaneously symbolizing illusion, specifically, the illusion of how one thing can be reminiscent of another wholly dissimilar...
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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
A man and woman (Jig) are waiting at a train station in Zaragoza, Spain. We can surmise that they are headed for Madrid from the text. They drink beer and an Anis drink. They note that the hills...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In answering this question I would want to focus on the way in which Modernism sought new forms to try and mirror the fragmentation and uncertainty that characterised modern life following the...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In a story titled "Fathers and Sons," Hemingway stated: "If he wrote it he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them." I believe that Hemingway was trying to "get rid"...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Jig is faced with a choice - have an abortion or keep a baby conceived out of wedlock (even though the word abortion is never used, it is clear that this is the crux of the situation. When this...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In typical Hemingway fashion, this short story leaves much room for interpretation and most critical details regarding character and plot unstated. Clearly, through the dialogue (the one messenger...
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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
Much of “Hills Like White Elephants” consists of dialogue between the man and the woman. What makes this particularly remarkable is that the woman repeatedly insists that she does not want to talk...
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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
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
The title of this short story is used to refer to the comparison that Jig makes between the hills she sees in the distance and white elephants. So much of this story lies in the subtext, of what is...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Tone in literature can have two manifestations. The first, and most often referred to, is the author's tone. This expresses the author's feeling for the subject at hand. It is usually made clear in...
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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
The subject the man and the girl are discussing is that of an abortion. The fact that they discuss the "operation" without calling it an abortion relays a lot about the couple and their...
