Hills Like White Elephants Literary Analysis

People should figure out what’s best for themselves. “Hills Like White Elephants” was written by Ernest Hemingway. That based on two characters the American man and Jig who were waiting at the humid train station to get to their destination from Madrid to Barcelona. They were seated at the bar inside the train station where they found some shade besides a bamboo bead curtain, refreshing alcohol, and discussed whether or not if Jig should continue on with her procedure. Hemingway had many sets of themes in his story which included choices and identity that he significantly added in his short story to make the symbols and point of view to make his story have more meaning. The American man and Jig are in a complicated relationship and the issues that are occurring in their relationship are not making things any better. Jig who is the female companion is expecting a child with the American man and their main option is to go through with a procedure. The meaning of “procedure” in this short story means an abortion. Jig doesn’t know if she wants to go through with the abortion, but the American man is not really pressuring her, but he’s making her reconsider the idea because he doesn’t believe he’s ready to be a father or get married, especially since their relationship is not in very good place. Jig seems …show more content…
“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story that mainly tells us how the storyteller and the writer are putting together the story. Hemingway puts the story together by how the characters are thinking, their actions, and what they see. It visually helps the readers on what the characters are seeing and describing. The narrator is telling the story from past tense and it’s helping readers to recreate the time it happened in that moment. The third-person narrator gives a strong meaning and better understanding to its theme which was the choices and identities of the