1. White Elephants
Absence of the morality argument is important because discussions about abortion are normally accompanied by debates about the rightness and or wrongness of it. ... In "Hills like White Elephants" Hemingway takes great care in his portrayal of the characters because this is essential to his argument. ... The use of white elephants as a way to describe the hills seems irrelevant to the couple's argument but this is just another way Hemingway adds to his argument. ... To prevent the intrusion of the "rightness vs. wrongness" argument Banks is careful to never actually tell the reader that...
- Word Count: 2067
- Approx Pages: 8
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate