Hills Like White Elephants
An Analysis of Theme in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills’s Like White Elephants”
Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants is a fascinating story, set at a train station at Zaragosa, Spain. This story first appeared in a short story collection titled Men Without Women, which was published in 1927. In this story, we eavesdrop on a conversation held by “the American and the girl with him” (170). In their dialogue, conflict is created as the characters …
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…where the reader can relax and get to know the characters. Thus, readers may feel alienated due to this and the pace of the story. In the end of the story the girl wises up to the fact that the talking is getting them nowhere and she asks him to stop. To relieve the tension the man leaves, providing Hemingway with a point in which loneliness is rewarded as a virtue instead of a hindrance.
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