Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephant Analysis

In the short story “Hills like White Elephants,” the author Ernest Hemingway creates a very complex relationship between an American man and woman. The majority of the passage involves the two having a deep conversation about an abortion that seems rather confusing at first to the reader. The couple bickers back and forth with each other about a certain “operation” that the woman is supposed to be having. At the end of the story, the author has one last paragraph that describes the man walking away from his female companion and observing the other people waiting at the train station they are at. This scene displays a better understanding of the kind of relationship the man and woman have while expressing in dialogue what both of their thoughts are concerning the operation. It also puts a theory in place on what the future holds for the couple. [okay but how will these add up to one unified argument about the assigned scene?] Each time the man and woman speak to each other in the story, it seems as if they are both irritated over an issue that is never stated. The so called ‘elephant in the room’. This ties in with the title of the story and how …show more content…
She seems to be very easy going [really? doesn’t she seem pretty tense and resentful?] about the operation she is getting and does not want to talk about it that much. The woman simply agrees with whatever the man says without putting up too much of a fight. When the man at the end of the story walks away to take their luggage to the station, he walks back at her and simply smiles and asks if she feels better and she replies “I feel fine, there’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.” (232) This puts an emphasis on how unhealthy their relationship is as she seems to just say things to ease the situation ✔. The couple likes to talk instead of actually communicate which would help solve problems in their