Color, Biblical Imagery, Physical Path, Landscape, and Animals In “Hills Like White Elephants” and “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned” Hemmingway and Eggers both use the symbolism of color, Biblical imagery, a physical path, landscape, and animals to enhance their respective story’s meaning. Through symbolism the reader can get a complete understanding of what each of the characters are feeling. Hemingway is famous for his stories about everyday people that his readers can relate to. Eggers ' is known for his confessional writing style. (WSJ) The result is that what seem to be two very simple stories are each, in fact, full of underlying meaning.
In “Hills Like White Elephants” and “After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned,” both authors use color symbolically in order to add depth and meaning to his story. Hemingway’s “color symbolism involving the blackness of licorice and the whiteness of the hills suggests contrast between sorrow and joy.”(Weeks 75) The whiteness of the hills represents Jig being happy with the idea of having the baby and the blackness depicts sadness she would endure after having the abortion. In Eggers short story "After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," he describes being pulled from the river in a man …show more content…
The junction in “Hills Like White Elephants,” is symbolic of the crossroad where Jig must decide whether or not to have the abortion. If she goes to one side of the track, she is choosing the path with the American and continues with the operation, but the other side is choosing to have the baby without the American and the hardships that come with raising a child. “My time over the gap is life.” (Eggers 3) Eggers ' uses the gap in the straightaway to symbolize Steven’s decision to either stay safe or feel
In “Hills Like White Elephants” and “After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned,” both authors use color symbolically in order to add depth and meaning to his story. Hemingway’s “color symbolism involving the blackness of licorice and the whiteness of the hills suggests contrast between sorrow and joy.”(Weeks 75) The whiteness of the hills represents Jig being happy with the idea of having the baby and the blackness depicts sadness she would endure after having the abortion. In Eggers short story "After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," he describes being pulled from the river in a man …show more content…
The junction in “Hills Like White Elephants,” is symbolic of the crossroad where Jig must decide whether or not to have the abortion. If she goes to one side of the track, she is choosing the path with the American and continues with the operation, but the other side is choosing to have the baby without the American and the hardships that come with raising a child. “My time over the gap is life.” (Eggers 3) Eggers ' uses the gap in the straightaway to symbolize Steven’s decision to either stay safe or feel