Review
Hills Like White Elephants is a short story published in 1927 wrote by Ernest Hemmingway. “Hills Like White Elephants” is a extract from Ernest Hemmingway’s second collection of short stories, Men Without Women. The story’s numerous allusions and sparse style are also typical of Hemingway’s writing. The story focuses on a conversation between an American man and a girl at a Spanish train station. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair has a discussion, about an "operation" and the man wants the girl to have this operation, which is implied to be an abortion.
Ernest Hemmingway sent me a lot of different messages throughout this short story. But the main message that I received was that you need to have the courage
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Ernest Hemmingway uses a technique where you have to think through the text in your mind several times repeated. It’s called the iceberg theory. The iceberg theory is when a meaning sound casual, but it actually has a lot more underneath it. Just like an real iceberg.
Hemingway avoids using dialogue tags, such as “he said” or “she said”. The text is pretty stiff and simply because he doesn’t use fancy words, beautiful describing and varied vocabulary. He doesn’t even write any internal monologues. This makes the readers to perceive how the characters thinks and feels all by them self.
I think that maybe the girl and the man was sitting outside the abortion clinic. And that the train was like symbols that she needs to do the abortion before the train has gone or in simple words before it’s too late to do an abortion.
Also at the end he asked the girl “Do you feel better” and she replied “I feel fine. There’s nothing wrong with me, I feel fine”
Once again the women doesn’t have the courage to say what she really things. She just lied and once again tried to run from her problems rather than facing them feels depressed about the