Ernest Hemmingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is not a story in the clasical
sense with an introduction, a development of the story, and an end. We only get some
time in the life of two people, as if it were just a piece of a film where we have a lot do
deduce. This story does not give everything done for the reader, we only see the
surface of what is going on. It leaves an open end, readers can have their own ending
and therefore take part in the story. A masterpiece of external narration, there seems
to be no focal point in the characters. One must only here what is said, not what is
thought by the two main characters, the American and Jig. Hemmingway's third person
narrator takes an objective position outside of the characters, thus providing a look from
an third person point of
with an issue that are faced by many couples, abortion. It seems odd to apply the term
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