... "Hills Like White Elephant" by Ernest Hemingway is about an American man and a women named Jig, who are inside of a bar at a train station in Spain as they wait for the train that will take them to Barcelona. While waiting inside of the bar, as Jig is staring outside of the window staring ... for the internal problems the characters are having. In "Hills Like White Elephants" the struggle between Jig and the America takes place at a train station. Hemingway states, "The station was between two lines of rails" (591). This is a parallel with Jigs internal fight, as she is faced with making...

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... Henry goes off and finds his wife to be. The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer, the good and bad hillsides, and a railroad station between two tracks. The beer represents the couple's, "the American- and "the girl's-, usual routine activity they do together. This bothers the girl because "that's all ... to stop being a girl and become a woman. Hemingway then presents the reader with two contrasting hills. One hill on one side of the station is dull, desolate, and barren; "it had no shade and no trees-, very desert like. However, the other hill on the other ...

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... to a realization about what they are discussing. In focusing on this issue, Hemingway expressed a powerful feminist theme. The story takes place at a train station in Ebro River Valley in Spain "a symbol of the word embryo." At the beginning, the reader is introduced to the barren landscape around the train ... station across the valley, where the couple is sitting at a table. They are waiting for the train to Madrid to come. It is very hot, ... White Elephants"). This is, in my opinion, a turning point in the story. The girl finally starts to think with her head. She walks to the end o...

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... the positive possibilities and works to persuade her to go through with the abortion. Hemingway uses symbolism through alcohol, the hills, the white elephants, and the train station to develop the theme of the story. Hemingway's writing style in this story is well crafted. His simple style and taut dialogue pull readers into the story, ... is a bit of a hill itself. Being pregnant ties a mother down, making her less mobile and more stationary, just like the hills. The element of the railroad station is symbolic of being at the crossroads of life during a time of crisis. The American ma...

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... Like White Elephants", a couple is depicted, primarily through dialogue, in a conflict over an issue which is really never mentioned, but is obviously an abortion. The story takes place at a railroad station in the Ebro Valley of Spain. The issues discussed in the story are amazingly similar to events which haunted Ernest's life. The characteristics of the man portrayed in the story ... are depictive of Ernest. One prevalent theme within the story "Hills Like White Elephants" is alcohol. The story takes place in a bar at a railway station and begins with a man and a woman sampling vario...

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... produces the story of a young couple in his short story, "Hills Like White Elephants." Waiting to catch a train the young couple stops for a short rest in the shade of the station building. Everything seems normal, they order drinks a have normal conversation until the man brings up the topic of the girls operation; things quickly become uneasy. It is quite obvious that ... in, leaving them hanging on every word. A spectacular setting is created by Hemingway in his short story, "Hills Like White Elephants." Rich with symbolism it is set in a small train station stuck between Barcelona a...

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... start a family. But, as Jig looks across the green valley a cloud passes overhead taking away the sunshine literally shadowing and fictively foreshadowing the ultimate death of the unborn child. The station sits between two railroads suggesting that there are two ways or two choices that they can make. The tracks to Madrid lead to the abortion; the tracks in the opposite ... ...

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... the army's retreat or Catherine's death, and serves to mark these events as random occurrences, just like rain itself. Hemingway uses rain in the scene when Henry leaves the train station to go back to war. It rains hard the entire night that Henry leaves: "Outside the mist turned to rain and in a little while it was raining hard. We heard ... ...

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