Literary Analysis: Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingways trivial story Hills like fresh Elephants depicts a couple, the humanity and the female child, casual conversation over drinks while awaiting the stretch of a train to Madrid. The story ends, as shadowedly as it started, with the devil some to embark on the train. Heminwayss use of ambiguous and vague language, dialogue, characterization, and metaphors in Hills like White Elephants could leave his readers bewildered to the underlying causa matter of its plot.However, by properly citing and analyzing the literary techniques used by Hemingway iodin is able to conclude that the important characters discuss their feelings and concerns about the possibility of an spontaneous abortion. passim the short story Hills like White Elephants, Hemingway has chosen to sell his main characters as the man and the female child. By patterning these names in addressing his main characters, Hemingway completelyudes to their difference in age and emotional maturity towar ds the conflict that they face.Hemingway, to stir the female characters four-year-older age and her naivety about an abortion, uses the word girl. The reader is able to confirm that Hemingway does not conceder all females to be girls through the introduction the secondary character, the waitress, who brings the couple their drinks. Hemingway thusly continues to address this secondary as the woman and thus, alluding the word girl only refers to the young and naive character of Jig.On the other hand, Hemingways usage of the word man, in referring to his male character, indicates a more mature and pragmatic view the character has on the idea of an abortion as a solution to the unwanted pregnancy. The metaphor employed by Hemingway to allude towards an abortion can be found in paragraph 46, where the man explains to the girl that the operation impart simply let the air in and then its all perfectly natural. (p. 445). The male character then equivocally refers to his feelings to th e pregnancy as, the only thing that bothers us.Its the only thing thats made us unhappy. (p. 445). An earlier allusion to the differences mingled with the main characters, and how each will respond to their conflict, has been conveyed through their conversation found in paragraphs 17-32. The dialogue by, and associated with, the man is confidante, assuring, tentative, and slightly condescending towards the girl. Likewise, the dialogue in paragraphs 17-32 connected with the girl is uncertain, passive aggressive, childlike, and earnestly striving for her partners guidance.Ernest Hemingways short story Hills like White Elephants depicts a young couple in the mist of an uncomfortable conversation regarding their choice of action towards an unwanted pregnancy. though the subject of an abortion is not directly addressed, in Hills like White Elephants, Hemingway uses ambiguous metaphors, vague dialogue, and generalized characters help him to set mood between his two main characters. The readers understanding and ability to spot the usage of literary tools by Hemingway is the key to decode this hazy plot.