White elephant Essays

A Struggle with Identity “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story in which Ernest Hemingway, the author, uses stylistic ways in presenting the story. The setting takes place in a Spanish railway station. Jig, Hemingway’s main character, and the American man, exchange frustration and confusion because of a simple operation the American man wants Jig to go through (Hemingway, 887). After a series of arguments and reasoning, at the end of the story, Jigs explained that she felt fine, suggesting

Oday Alyatim Gender Studies Prof Qualls Hills Like White Elephants In the short story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, the characters Jig and the man are out on vacation traveling from Barcelona to Madrid through train. While at the train station, they experience began talking about an operation, how they discuss getting this operation shows the strong gender roles between Jig and the man. Jig seems to be the happy girl who wants to make the man happy, and the man seems to have all

In the essay “The Bachelor/Bachelorette’s White Elephant” Thea Kim makes the argument for the inclusion or exclusion of minorities or in this case, people of color such as black Americans and Asians in two major television shows, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. According to Thea Kim, in this essay, it is evident that each of the two television shows do not include people of color. This is evident, as both the Bachelor and the Bachelorette have never had a person of color as their main characters

In the short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and The Hand” by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the authors have depicted women and their society. Readers can fully grasp the idea of a patriarchal system with how the men in the stories overpower the women. Although both were written and published in the same decade, with "The Hand" wrote in 1924 and "Hills Like White Elephants" published in 1927, there are distinct differences in the way the authors have portrayed women and their

The significance to the story is that the white elephant in this story is the baby that these to made together is their so called “white elephant”. The title of the story is the hidden message throughout the whole story about the girl being pregnant with a kid.in this quote it says ‘I know. But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it?’ they are talking about if they get rid of the baby they will both be happy together and would be glad

In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants, a story begins of two completely opposite sceneries separated by railroads in between a train station with the sun shining. On one side you have hills in a valley that were long and white. On the other you a plain field with no trees and no shade. The story continues about an American man and a girl sitting on a table in the shadow of a building with bamboo strings in the door to keep the flies out. As the story progresses, a conversation between

is “Hills like White Elephants”. The short story is simply a conversation been a man and a woman in a bar at a train station, but, Hemmingway’s unique writing style creates an opportunity for the reader to ‘read between the lines’ in order to fully understand the purpose of the story. Timothy D. O’Brein’s feministic analysis successfully studies the theme of nature vs. man-made which contributes to the greater understanding of the conflict in the story. “Hill like White Elephants” is a story of

Hills like White Elephants, is a short story that was written by Ernest Hemingway in 1927. The stories main technique in giving information to the reader is using dialogue. There is a conversation between an American man and a girl who is with him. The two are at the crossroads waiting for a train at a railroad station between Barcelona and Madrid. They never specifically address what they are talking about, but they are debating about whether the woman should get a procedure or not and what will

the pleasure of reading literatures. In my case, I am very honest, so not only lying, but I am also not good at implying something that I want to express in an effective way. For that reason, I would like to introduce a short story “Hill like white elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway who is one of famous American writers. I’ve heard his name and his famous novel “The old man and the Sea”. However, the short story that I learned in the class is more impressive for me than other writings are. The

now. Along with how in the white elephant we see a bit of frantic behavior since the way they are trying to cover up the abortion and they refuse to talk to it because of how demonized it during the time. Both the veldt and the white elephant are very similar. One of the ways they are similar is how the emotions are shared in the story. For example in hills like white elephants we get this line “i say we can have everything,

For this assignment, I chose to do a compare and contrast paper based on the two short stories I 've selected, “The Jewelry” and “Hills Like White Elephants”. The two stories share some similarities as well as being complete opposites when it comes to certain matters. First off here 's a short summary for “The Jewelry”. The story is about the main character, Mr. Lantin, is a widower who reminisce about the times he had with his late wife who passed away due to pneumonia. Due to being unable to live

who choose to have an abortion. It is important to understand that every woman's experience with abortion is unique and to offer support and resources to those who may be struggling with the psychological effects of this procedure. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. With the lack of descriptions in general, the description of the train station and the hills that are seen from there catches the attention of the reader. This creates the question; what importance can there be found in the setting and the metaphor white elephants? The first conversation the American and the woman have is when the woman gives an off-hand remark on some hills nearby. According to the woman the hills, “‘Look like white elephants,’ she

specific time. Although O’Connor’s takes place in the twenties and Hemingway in the fifties, American disillusion is present in all time periods. The main characters are driven by their self-interests rather than the interests of others. “Hills Like White Elephants” demonstrates how in the situation of an unplanned pregnancy, the man takes on the selfish role of a bystander while the woman takes on a stronger more aggressive role in deciding how to approach the idea of an abortion.

An American man and girl sit at a station waiting for a train to Madrid. While sitting enjoying a couple of beers the girl notices nearby hills which resemble “white elephants”, the man has never seen one. They order more drink and began to bicker, as the tension between the two is noticeable. Following, the man mentions an operation which he tries encouraging her to have. He assures the woman that the operation is “perfectly simple and natural” and tells her “it’s the only thing that makes us unhappy”

Black or White Hills: The Resolution of Hills Like White Elephants Hemingway is known as a master of the Iceberg Theory, which his short story Hills like White Elephants is a prime example of. The short story feels a lot like a fragment of a longer story – beginning and end are left up to the reader’s imagination and the story is mainly based around a single topic: the fate of their unborn child. It is a story about a couple in Spain waiting for a train. They have a couple of drinks and attempt to

Hills like White Elephants is a short story about an American man and a girl who are in a predicament about something in that is very hard to decide. Hills like White Elephants is a story that focuses on this couple whose relationship seem to be a success until she got pregnant. This story not only focuses on their relationship, but it specifically focuses on their situation and how both go about it. The story Hills like White Elephants is set up between a man and a girl, in which the man is trying

Hills Like White Elephants is the white elephant, the elephant in the room, the railway station and the landscape. To start off, the ẁhite elephant usually symbolizes something that nobody wants or useless; which in this case would be the women`s baby which the American does not want. Relating this to an Jungian approach we can see how this relates to an anima because the American`s personality shines through of how he just wants to be single and doesn't want to be a father. The elephant in the room

Hills Like White Elephants “Hills Like White Elephants” is a dialog between a man a woman. They are talking, but they are not listening to each other. The both realize the relationship is over. The conversation is about making the choice of having an abortion or marriage. Both of these choices are extremes measurements that the man is not willing to take it. Throughout the dialog, the girl is telling him she does not want to have the abortion, but to please him she agrees. She depends on him so much

In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway, there is a relationship unfolding, a complex relationship difficult to understand. The relationship reveals itself by a conversation between a man and a woman, a topic of conversation that people rarely discussed in the period that the story takes place. After researching interpretations, most of my findings resemble “She is pregnant, and he wants her to have an abortion” (Weeks 76), to which I agree that this conversation is about