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Hills Like White Elephants Modernism Analysis

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Written during the period of Modernism and published in 1927, Ernest Hemingway’s work, “Hills like White Elephants,” is a short story about a conversation between an American man and a young girl, Jig, while drinking beer at a railway station in Spain. Modernism was the vague term to describe the literary shift which marked a strong and intentional break with tradition in areas—arts, religion, science, politics, and social conventions. The author keeps the major conflict in the story ambiguous by giving very little context and interpretation. Hemingway writes this piece of realistic fiction which conveys a story through images imbued with meaning rather than explanations and words. Using Modernism, along with Imagism and Objectivism, “Hills
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