An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story published in 1927, which is set at a train station in Spain. In this ... "the American and the girl with him". Most of the story is predominately dialogue between the two characters. During this conversation, the reader may determine that the couple is at a critical point in their lives when they must make a life-or-death decision on whether the woman should have an abortion. Although this short story crosses timelines to become relevant to ... ...
... , however, that these viewpoints indicate that Hemingway may have employed as varied number of styles. This is not so. Hemingway's style seems to have been a constantly developing one when a chronological analysis is done to his varied works. In his discussion of the prose style of The Old Man and the Sea in "Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Old Man and the ... - in the New York Times Book Review (7 November 1954) in Conversations with Ernest Hemingway. Ed. Matthew Bruccoli. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. Penn Warren, Robert. "Ernest Hemingway- in Modern Critical ...