Hills Like White Elephants is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that tells the story of a young couple arguing at a bar in a Spanish train station. The story is told primarily in dialogue and it is up to the reader to infer on what the discussion between the couple is about. It is revealed through contextual clues that the woman is pregnant and the man, presumably her boyfriend, is trying to talk her into an abortion.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park Illinois on July 21 of 1899 A lot of the writings he has done were created because of the wars that he has seen There are many books that he has written which are well known Some examples of those books are A farewell to arms the old man and the sea to have and have not and men without women Hills like white elephants was in his first collection called Men without women This collection appeared in 1927 Ernest Hemingway received a Nobel Prize for literature
Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingways short story Hills Like White Elephants is a story about a couple who are having some trouble in their relationship The main characters in the story are an American man and a girl The whole story is mostly a dialogue between the couple In this story that takes place in Spain while a man and woman wait for a train The story is set up as a dialogue between the two in which the man is trying to convince the woman to do something she is hesitant in doing
Hills like White Elephants In the short story Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway a man who is referred to as The American and a girl who is referred to as Jig are at a train station in Ebro Spain They are awaiting to broad a train to Madrid where eligibly a simple operation will be performed The American is trying to convince Jig to proceed with the operation because its the only thing that makes them unhappy Ernest Hemingway never explicitly states what the operation is but it is l
Hills like white elephants The short story Hills like white elephants takes place in a small river valley in Spain called Ebro We meet a man and a woman having a odd conversation We know that the womans name is Jig but the man is just referred to as the American page 414 line 3 from the bottom They are waiting for their train to arrive while they order 2 cold beers You are told that the two are a couple and during the time at the station they are telling each other how much they love each other
Hills Like White Elephants is from a collection of short stories Men Without Women by Ernest Hemmingway It was first published in 1927 The story is about a couple waiting for a train at the train station The male character is referred as the American and his female companion as the girl and later Jig The girl is pregnant and the man is trying to insist in a very artful way that she must go for an abortion The setting is in the valley of the Ebro in Spain At one side there are hills and the scen
Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway I have read a story called Hills like white elephants written by Ernest Hemingway The story takes place in Ebro in Spain at a train station A couple is waiting for the train and while they wait they decide to have drinks like they always do They are having a conversation about what they should drink and suddenly the woman says that the hills look like white elephants Then the conversation turned to be about the woman and the baby The man wanted her to