The Journey of Mind in Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants In 1920s, America witnessed a dramatic change in social, economic, and culture aspects. Many writers began to write to reflect life and the change of the society. Hemingway is one of the outstanding writer in this decade. He got a big influence with his Ice Berg writing style. He wrote Hills Like White Elephants after having time served in the World War I as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants is one of the short stories showed some aspects of love and society at that time. The story is about the conversation of a couple, an American man and a girl on the day they were waiting for the train to Madrid. It is just like a journey of their thoughts with many target destinations. In this story, Hemingway used many elements of literature to express the “Hills like White Elephants” through the conversation of two main …show more content…
It’s their baby. It is the results from “labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights." At the beginning of the story, the girl seemed to depend on the mature man; She asked him when she need to decide something such as “could we try it?”, or “Is it good with the water?” But later in the story, she showed her opinion when he tried to convince her so many times to do the “awful simple operation”; She response, “What makes you think so?” The story clearly describes that the man thinks that it is better without the baby in their life while indecision of the girl makes us think about her decision and what would happen to their relationship, their future, and the fate of the unborn child with her saying in the end “There’re nothing wrong with me, I feel fine.” Hemingway used many literary devices in “Hills Like White Elephants”. At first glance, in the introduction, the Hills is introduced to the readers: “The Hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees.”