• “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

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Hills Like White Elephants Though Hemingway 's celebrated story "Hills Like White Elephants " may

br appear , on the surface , to be a very slight short-story , composed mostly of dialogue , with little overt action or final resolution , the story far from being slight on thematic impact or technical innovation actually represents a "watershed " of narrative techniques and also a radical shifting of Hemingway 's thematic perspective , as it is usually considered by readers and critics . As Alan Cheuse remarks in his essay "Reflections on Dialogue "How D 'yuh Get t 'Eighteent ' Avenoo and Sixty-Sevent ' Street " one of native narrative accomplishments of early-to-mid 20th century American was an idiom which admitted and actually invited the rhythms and form of natural speech prevail in narrative proximity . American , according to Cheuse "possess an acute ability to create skeins of seemingly natural language that make up a world out of human speech " and also represent a special gift for create entire worlds through dialogue , as is readily manifest in "Hills Like White Elephants (Cheuse

Hemingway 's penchant for natural language and a "naturalistic " idiom comprises one elementary pillar of his narrative technique in "Hills Like White Elephants " another key narrative strategy is the stripping away of expository writing , or the releasing of direct information to the reader which will help the reader to place the action of the story in context . Rather than weigh down the narrative with expository writing , Hemingway chooses to leave this story lean and bare , consisting primarily of conflict-charged dialogue between the story 's two main characters . By refusing to included background information or even internal monologue on behalf of the two characters , Hemingway "leaves virtually everything , even what is at issue between the girl and the American , for the reader to "figure " out " and this strategy includes the story 's final resolution : whether or not the girl in story opts to have the couple 's child or whether she chooses as is the man 's desire to have an abortion . The lack of final resolution is notable enough that even critics are left to their own devices to decide what happens to finish the story and conclude the conflict between the two characters . As one scholar commented "the ending has seemed stubbornly indeterminate however , the same critic , Renner , has forwarded a compelling theory as to how the resolution of "Hills Like White Elephants " can be deduced from a careful study of its narrative form imagery , and symbolism (Renner

To begin an examination of the symbolism and other elements of the story , an explication...