![]() Thus inĬhoosing whether to abort or to have the child, the couple are choosingīetween two ways of life. Other side are described with imagery of living, growing things. The hills on one side of the valley are dry and barren those on the Valley with, naturally enough, a line of hills rising up on either side. Setting neatly reinforces conflict: the two lines of rails, presumably going in opposite directions, represent figuratively the decision pointĪt which the couple find themselves. Sits "between two lines of rails in the sun" (MWW39). To her companion's determined urging that an abortion would be anĮasy solution to their problem. Never stated, they are trying to agree on whether or not she should haveĪn abortion and it becomes clear that the girl is reluctant to accede Spain trying to decide what to do about her pregnancy. As the story opens, the girl and herĬompanion are sitting at a table outside a bar in a railroad station in To follow the girl's development in "Hills Like WhiteĮlephants," it is essential to have a clear sense of the setting in Own true feelings about not only what to do about the child she isĬarrying but also what will be the most fully rewarding direction to ![]() Setting reveals that she first discovers and then decides to follow her Movements in the context of the story's carefully constructed Close analysis of the girl's utterances and Toward the conclusion that she decides not to have an abortion, and herĬompanion, though not without strong misgivings, acquiesces in herĭecision. With the American's wishes and her own feelings points, in my view, Hemingway's characterization of the pregnant girl as she struggles Hannum is right, I believe, to argue that publishedĬommentary has not looked closely enough at the development of theįemale character through the story and "has underestimated The relationship irreparably ruptured, will leave her AmericanĬompanion. Recently argued that the girl will indeed have the abortion but then, Giving a new twist to the majority opinion, Howard L. Girl will have the abortion in order to please and thus keep her lover.īut a considerable minority find these arguments unconvincing andĬonclude that the story leaves the question open. A majority of commentators,by my count,assume that the ![]() Girl's pregnancy? Yet the ending has seemed stubbornly Story's ending: What are the couple going to do about the Story's structure and conflict, it seems logical to assume that heĪlso expected the reader to be able to answer the question left by the Meanwhile unobtrusively supplying what is needed to understand the Girl and the American, for the reader to "figure" out, ![]() Hemingway leaves virtually everything, even what is at issue between the Is anything left to say about it (209), what has not been satisfactorily Smith, in his 1989 survey of opinion on the story, can wonder if there Retrieved from Īlthough most of the features of "Hills Like WhiteĮlephants" have been well discussed and understood, so that Paul APA style: Moving to the girl's side of 'Hills Like White Elephants.'.Moving to the girl's side of 'Hills Like White Elephants.'." Retrieved from MLA style: "Moving to the girl's side of 'Hills Like White Elephants.'." The Free Library.
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