... She asked them for a ride to Alaska and they happily obliged. When they got up there, they made themselves at home and got to know the girl more. "You couldn't tell how much hair she had when it was rolled up so neatly. Then my brother Henry did something funny. He went up ... waist, and he started twirling, this way and that, so her hair was flung out from side to side." Both Henry and Lyman were happy people; happy that is, until Henry was sent for to go into the army. When Henry returned from the army, he was definitely a changed person. "But he was quiet, so quiet, and ... heard h...

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... ." He is also seen to be wealthy as he sips on a glass of whiskey near a swimming pool. He is also sociable and popular as shown when "he stopped to kiss eight or ten other women." At this moment in time Neddy is at the pinnacle of his life and he is clearly content. As he begins on his journey his life ... could have it back. A significant part of the story is when Neddy has to cross a busy road. This has the symbolic meaning of Neddy leaving his youth behind him. He is standing by the side of the road surrounded by "beer cans, rags and blow out patches - exposed to all kinds of ridicul...

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... draw herself back from this structure when she perceives she does not totally belong to that place, since there she is not really herself, but the mother, the wife and the house manager, in other words, Mrs. Rawling. Inside the house, Susan has to perform her domestic roles, not being able to see her own essence, "as if she were in abeyance, as if she ... move herself to the big garden. There as Susan watches the river passing among the lively trees, she hopes to be really alone so that she can look for her inner self. However, this search arises a dubious feeling, since she is eager to...

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... draw herself back from this structure when she perceives she does not totally belong to that place, since there she is not really herself, but the mother, the wife and the house manager, in other words, Mrs. Rawling. Inside the house, Susan has to perform her domestic roles, not being able to see her own essence, "as if she were in abeyance, as if she ... move herself to the big garden. There as Susan watches the river passing among the lively trees, she hopes to be really alone so that she can look for her inner self. However, this search arises a dubious feeling, since she is eager to...

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... said in and pull out the kinks in this thing" (255). The major external conflict that Jack is the clash between him and Scratchy Wilson. Scratchy is the only trace of the traditional western bad guy even though his clothes are from "the East Side of New York" (256). He is quoted as being "the last one of the old gang that used to hang out along the river" (255). No two characters in ... the story are as different as Scratchy and Jack. One is a hero (Jack), while the other is feared (Scratchy). Scratchy is ... "out to shoot, and he's out for trouble" (255). In Yellow Sky, it is up to Ja...

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... you think about symbols and the meaning of them. In this short story the American and his girlfriend are sitting on the café and the girl views from one side to another a couple of times. On one side there is no shade, no trees, only hills, which are white, like elephants. On the other side there is a river (the banks of Ebro) and fields of grain. In these past ... sentences there are various symbols that the author present to the reader. The dry side of the station symbolizes that ... there is no life, nothing can grow there. The other green side with the river and the trees symbolize...

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... you think about symbols and the meaning of them. In this short story the American and his girlfriend are sitting on the café and the girl views from one side to another a couple of times. On one side there is no shade, no trees, only hills, which are white, like elephants. On the other side there is a river (the banks of Ebro) and fields of grain. In these past ... sentences there are various symbols that the author present to the reader. The dry side of the station symbolizes that ... there is no life, nothing can grow there. The other green side with the river and the trees symbolize...

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... it. Henry liked having fun and making people laugh. "Then my brother Henry did something funny he started twirling, this way and that, so her hair was flung out from side to side. "I always wondered what it was like to have long pretty hair," Henry says. (408) Henry liked to talk; he never met a stranger, " talking to whoever sat with us- (409 ... his friends quite coming around. " now you couldn't get him to laugh, or when he did it was more the sound of a man choking, a sound that stopped up the throats of other people around him." (409) Sometimes it was like Henry was numb. "Once I w...

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... , barren land. On the opposite side, there is a flourish of vegetation, a river and the hills that look like white elephants. "Across on the other side where fields of grain and trees along the banks of Ebro. Far away beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees" (Hemmingway 31). In this case Hemmingway uses each side of the setting to represent each side of the abortion argument. The dry barren land ... represents if Jig did have the abortion ... ...

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... the true nature of Sam is revealed. The trip has awakened many new feelings in Sam, feelings she wasn't aware of before. The trip on the river could be a symbol of how Sam has undergone a change. A symbol of her beginning sexuality could be seen at the campfire. The reader is told that while Sam is stepping on Layton's back the fire has made her cold on one side and hot on the other "The right side of ... her body was warm from the fire, the left side was cold" (p. 4, line 142 ... ...

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... from the normal river it once was and into this wild beast about to overflow. Louise was revealing that something was going to change when the brothers went to visit it. Louise then uses her feelings to describe the soldiers of the Vietnam conflict era as being brainwashed and emotionless. She does this when Henry jumps into the water, and instead of yelling for help like any other ... into three parts, yet they are not in chronological order. The first part of the story gives the reader the detail of what was about to happen, a bridge being guarded and a man about to be hung. It also gi...

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... Like White Elephants" is during one of the first comments made by Jig says "" They"re lovely hills" [. . .] "They don't look like white elephants."". The hills for Jig represent the child while the hills for the man symbolized the big obstacle the couple had to overcome in their relationship. Later in the story there fields of grain and a river, which symbolizes the child and beyond the river are mountains, which suggest that if she ... of the station. For example, the station divides by a set of parallel tracks. This is an indication of the couple being at a crucial juncture of their l...

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... thing to do. But I don't want you to do it if you don't really want to- (pg. 235). Although the girl does not want to have this operation she does it to please the American, to keep him by her side "Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me-(pg. 235). She longs to have a "perfect- relationship with him, to please him ... relied on men to sustain them. Individuality was rare and opinionated women were shunned. It is quite meaningful that the girl is given no identity other than her gender in this story whereas the man is immediately identified as "The American-. The hills/mountains ...

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... the story. On the side of the tracks were the American and the Jig are waiting, the country is "brown and dry,"(248) like everything is lifeless and does not belong. On the other side, were there are fields of grain and green tree, the river, beautiful mountains that look like "white elephants" in the sun. Life seems to be more enjoyable over there on the other side of the tracks, the side Jig wants to be on but can't because of complications. The ... railway station with the two lines of rails going in both directions forever, but leading to nowhere ... ...

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... along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains." (207). So on the side of the barren hills, there is no life, no changing, only dryness; but on the other side, there is a living area with life and fertilization which symbolizes the changing, the future and the hope of a better life. The opposition between the two landscapes emphasizes the importance of the choice of the characters because the consequences will be totally different. This explains the parallel of the situation of the two characters with the ... actual setting. The ... ...

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... acquainted with more of the details throughout these forty minutes of a couple's life together. The use of nature as a symbol is evident once, with the girl walking to the platform and looking to either side, on one hand barren and brown dusty plains, yet to the other side, there are fields of grass, mountains, hills, trees, and a river. The foremost landscape is infertility and lack of luster and beauty. The other side is the cliché of life and rebirth ... . This is where she stares off at during a moment of reflection and desire. The ways that the characters are referred to are a use ...

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... is when she says. "She would read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks" habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just ... hands You didn't even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood." These words reveal that Mama cares about this particular item and maybe she doesn't wan...

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