In the short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and The Hand” by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the authors have depicted women and their society. Readers can fully grasp the idea of a patriarchal system with how the men in the stories overpower the women. Although both were written and published in the same decade, with "The Hand" wrote in 1924 and "Hills Like White Elephants" published in 1927, there are distinct differences in the way the authors have portrayed women and their

In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants, a story begins of two completely opposite sceneries separated by railroads in between a train station with the sun shining. On one side you have hills in a valley that were long and white. On the other you a plain field with no trees and no shade. The story continues about an American man and a girl sitting on a table in the shadow of a building with bamboo strings in the door to keep the flies out. As the story progresses, a conversation between

Hills like White Elephants, is a short story that was written by Ernest Hemingway in 1927. The stories main technique in giving information to the reader is using dialogue. There is a conversation between an American man and a girl who is with him. The two are at the crossroads waiting for a train at a railroad station between Barcelona and Madrid. They never specifically address what they are talking about, but they are debating about whether the woman should get a procedure or not and what will

them is “Hills like White Elephants”. The short story is simply a conversation been a man and a woman in a bar at a train station, but, Hemmingway’s unique writing style creates an opportunity for the reader to ‘read between the lines’ in order to fully understand the purpose of the story. Timothy D. O’Brein’s feministic analysis successfully studies the theme of nature vs. man-made which contributes to the greater understanding of the conflict in the story. “Hill like White Elephants” is a story

at implying something that I want to express in an effective way. For that reason, I would like to introduce a short story “Hill like white elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway who is one of famous American writers. I’ve heard his name and his famous novel “The old man and the Sea”. However, the short story that I learned in the class is more impressive for me than other writings are. The reason why I like this story is that I wasn’t able to figure out what is going on and what was happened between

For this assignment, I chose to do a compare and contrast paper based on the two short stories I 've selected, “The Jewelry” and “Hills Like White Elephants”. The two stories share some similarities as well as being complete opposites when it comes to certain matters. First off here 's a short summary for “The Jewelry”. The story is about the main character, Mr. Lantin, is a widower who reminisce about the times he had with his late wife who passed away due to pneumonia. Due to being unable to live

women who choose to have an abortion. It is important to understand that every woman's experience with abortion is unique and to offer support and resources to those who may be struggling with the psychological effects of this procedure. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway

shown in “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. With the lack of descriptions in general, the description of the train station and the hills that are seen from there catches the attention of the reader. This creates the question; what importance can there be found in the setting and the metaphor white elephants? The first conversation the American and the woman have is when the woman gives an off-hand remark on some hills nearby. According to the woman the hills, “‘Look like white elephants