In the story “Hills like White Elephants” the author Hemingway uses subtext to achieve dialogue. When one is the reader one must interpret the dialogue and corporal language to infer their antecedents and their attitudes with respect to the present situation and their attitudes towards the others. In Hills like White Elephants, for example, both the American man and the girl speak in short sentences and rarely utter more than a few words at a time. From the beginning of the story, the contentious nature of the conversation Partner indicates resentment and discomfort. The dialogue in history is a distillation of the contrasts between the American and the Girl. In this example we can see the character of the American when the girl wants to fix
