Category: Hills Like White Elephants

Introduction The primary purpose of a narrative is to search for meaning, notes literary scholar Katherine Hayles. The need for meaning and interpretation is at the foundation of narrative in modern literature. She calls narratives a technology, which we employ in our search for meaning. Narratives allow us to make sense of the complexities of…

To have braveness is to do what you desire, barring the care of what others will think. By that preference, Earnest Hemingway is a very brave man. During a time when abortion used to be such an unspoken taboo, Hemingway threw a warning to the wind and wrote `Hills Like White Elephants`, a story about…

Short stories are known to go straight to the point, in other words there is no room for sub-plotting,’ slowing developing tensions,’ and for any kind of byplay. As it is stated in the Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, and Writing, early on in history, short stories, being brief and having a theme, included anecdotes, parables,…

Short stories are known to go straight to the point, in other words there is no room for sub-plotting,’ slowing developing tensions,’ and for any kind of byplay. As it is stated in the Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, and Writing, early on in history, short stories, being brief and having a theme, included anecdotes, parables,…

To have braveness is to do what you desire, barring the care of what others will think. By that preference, Earnest Hemingway is a very brave man. During a time when abortion used to be such an unspoken taboo, Hemingway threw a warning to the wind and wrote `Hills Like White Elephants`, a story about…

Hills Like White Elephants, written in 1927, is a classic example of a short story by Ernest Hemingway. The story is just 1,469 words long and, at first glance, retells to the reader a little dialogue between Jig and the American waiting for the train. Nevertheless, the author managed to fit into such a short…