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Hills Like White Elephants

by Ernest Hemingway

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Hills Like White Elephants

The dramatic tension in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is achieved through his use of sparse dialogue and subtext. The characters' indirect communication and the underlying, unspoken issue...

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Hills Like White Elephants

The trivial conversation in "Hills Like White Elephants" underscores the underlying tension and unresolved conflict between the characters. Hemingway's minimalist style, with its "iceberg effect,"...

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