Ernest Hemingway is the well-known author around the World. When people talk about Hemingway, they always talk about the Iceberg Theory, which is the most significant when the readers recognize in his works’ style. “Hill Like White Elephants” is one of the well-known short stories which shows to people clearly the Iceberg Theory . In the story, Hemingway uses symbol and short sentences of conversation in order to make the different arguments about the definition of love and happiness between the man and the woman.
In “Hill Like White Elephants”, people can see clear that there are two main characters: the man and the women who are waiting for the train. In the story, Hemingway uses a lot of short sentence for the conversation between …show more content…
First of all, the imaginary of the hills as the white elephants is the most important symbol of the story. The imagine of the hill show fourth time in the story . At the beginning, the woman told us the beautiful landscape of the hills as the white elephants. After that, the hill made her happy: “I said the mountain looked like white elephants. Wasn’t bright?...They are lovely hills…but if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it?” (31-32, 36, 60-61). From the view of Jig , the readers realize the hill as the white elephants is a symbol of the unborn child in her. If people skim the story , they think that the woman said about the hill just the normal thing she saw. However, linked with the conversation about an operation and the pushing of the man to the woman, the readers can realize the hill as Jig’s dream about her unborn child: “lovely hill” . Hemingway uses effectively the Iceberg Theory in order to make the reader trying to imaginary about the hill which follows the way that he think: so practical but it is not . Besides, the moment when Jig and her lover tried Anis del Toro is another symbol of the story. She said: “It taste like licorice…Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you’re waited so long for, like absinthe” (25, 27-28). Because Jig is in love, everything around her has the taste of licorice. When she said “things you’re waited so long for” (28), people might associate the unborn child inside her: she has waited for this moment for a long time, the moment that she could be a mother. When she has a baby, it will be incredible because she will have a full of love : the lover – the man, and her baby. Lastly, the
In “Hill Like White Elephants”, people can see clear that there are two main characters: the man and the women who are waiting for the train. In the story, Hemingway uses a lot of short sentence for the conversation between …show more content…
First of all, the imaginary of the hills as the white elephants is the most important symbol of the story. The imagine of the hill show fourth time in the story . At the beginning, the woman told us the beautiful landscape of the hills as the white elephants. After that, the hill made her happy: “I said the mountain looked like white elephants. Wasn’t bright?...They are lovely hills…but if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it?” (31-32, 36, 60-61). From the view of Jig , the readers realize the hill as the white elephants is a symbol of the unborn child in her. If people skim the story , they think that the woman said about the hill just the normal thing she saw. However, linked with the conversation about an operation and the pushing of the man to the woman, the readers can realize the hill as Jig’s dream about her unborn child: “lovely hill” . Hemingway uses effectively the Iceberg Theory in order to make the reader trying to imaginary about the hill which follows the way that he think: so practical but it is not . Besides, the moment when Jig and her lover tried Anis del Toro is another symbol of the story. She said: “It taste like licorice…Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you’re waited so long for, like absinthe” (25, 27-28). Because Jig is in love, everything around her has the taste of licorice. When she said “things you’re waited so long for” (28), people might associate the unborn child inside her: she has waited for this moment for a long time, the moment that she could be a mother. When she has a baby, it will be incredible because she will have a full of love : the lover – the man, and her baby. Lastly, the