Mary Welsh Hemingway

In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Ernest Hemingway highlights the struggles and delicacy in a relationship jeopardized by the possibility of a baby. The story is focused around a couple who are waiting for a train and their conversation. They start out with small talk which turns into the “elephant in the room”, the topic they know needs to be discussed, whether to go through with the abortion or not. This topic, which is the cause of the struggle, is not immediately made clear to us and is never…

Hills like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” has two main characters. There is an American man who is trying to convince his girlfriend to have an operation, an abortion. The American calls the girl Jig, Jig knows that no matter what she decides about the baby, this is the end of her relationship with the American man. Although she knows that her relationship with the American will not continue regardless of the decision she makes about the baby, Jig retreats from…

In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, there are many symbols that may be interpreted as different things. The book has several main symbols throughout it. These symbols include the land, the light, the alcohol, the train station, and the white elephant. Many people have different interpretations of what they think the symbols mean and what each stand for exactly. As the story begins, we are introduced to the setting which is described as brown and dry with no shade…

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…

In life people can relate to certain short stories because most relate to everyday life. I felt “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “Good People” by David Wallace Foster are two short stories with similar themes that are true everyday issues couples face. In the story “Hills like White Elephant” the American girl, Jig, is pregnant. She is described to be in a train station with who is supposed to be her boyfriend. She is faced with a dilemma of whether or not to have an…

difference between flashy headlines found in stories and articles, and the raw truth of reality. The story is set with an unnamed writer (who remains unnamed through the story’s entirety) sitting at his writing spot, eating oranges and watching the snow. Hemingway starts the story off this way to show the realty of the unnamed writers life. The beginning of this short story parallels the ending by concluding the story with a forum about a Spanish bull fighter who died of pneumonia and the people…

In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Ernest Hemingway talks about a couple facing their relationship’s conflicts. He includes displeasing words and phrases to indicate the protagonists’ relationship has come to an end. The story’s central idea is that communication is the key for a long-lasting relationship. In this story, the physical setting, the use of language, and the tone affect Ernest Hemingway’s central idea by providing readers hints that the two main characters will go their separate ways…

Final Paper Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. He had a strong influence on the 20th-century fiction; his life and image left an influence on later generations. Hemingway is a very talented writer who will be known and remembered forever. His hard work and dedication put into his writing is admired throughout the world. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois. In high school he worked on the school newspaper writing primarily…

them is obvious. Hemingway found his inspiration in the most unlikely of places: from a lake in Michigan where he spent his summers as a boy to the medical wards during World War I. However, his experiences brought him to the conclusion that permitting emotion was the root of life’s disasters, and this idea became the epitome of his novels (Pidgeon 91). Life commonly sends painful experiences to hinder us. Consequently, these obstacles and unlikely inspirations are what caused…

research, such as the novel, one can come up with a certain conclusion that the main character, Santiago represents the desires, the mentality, and the lifestyle that is identical to Hemingway's. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrays the old man, Santiago, with the desires, the mentality, and the lifestyle. Santiago is an old Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty four days without catching any fish. Santiago is now considered unlucky by Manolin's parents.…