Ernest Hemingway Foreshadowing

Ernest Miller Hemingway wrote many novels, short stories and he was an all-American journalist. His stories were mostly known to be fiction and he was a good enough author to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. In his two stories, “Cat in the Rain,” and “Hills like White Elephants,” he uses the theme of marriage between husband and wife and what each person wants and how their wants throw some conflict with what their spouse would like. In both stories, it would seem as if the husband in the story chooses to ignore the wife’s wants regarding what the husband is desiring. In all his other stories, they usually have a theme of love and war, and those stories were most likely influenced by his involvement in being an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI, and WWII. I’m sure the many tragic deaths and losses that he had seen during that time must have had a thing to do with his stories of love, war, and losing people, and since all of those themes were relatable back during actual war time, it would make sense on why he went down in history as one of the greatest writers of his time and to this day he is still known everywhere for his creative literature and stories.
Ernest Hemingway seemed to have traveled all over the world from Italy, to Toronto, to Paris, and he even went down south to …show more content…
The setting of them being by the train station, could very well foreshadow the two lives changing in time. In the story, Hemingway never mentioned that the train arrived or anything, so maybe that could foreshadow that the baby was not going to come due to the choice of her not going through with the pregnancy even though the story never says if she has the baby or not. When she says that the hills look like white elephants, it could foreshadow that the unnamed operation is an abortion because the hills look like pregnant elephants, which she could be using to describe her