"Hills Like White Elephants" By Ernest Hemingway: speculation based on details, of the couples negotiation subjects. Basic characterization of the couple included.

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Patrick Leslie

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“Hills Like White Elephants” By Ernest Hemingway: speculation based on details, of the couples negotiation subjects. Basic characterization of the couple included.



Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants, demonstrates the relationship between an American man and a girl. What becomes central during their interactions is that they cannot communicate with one another. To gain a characterization of the couple the dialogue needs to be read more than several times and from several perspectives. Hemingway does make a simple character outline through the narrator but rather uses insinuations through the characters themselves. By doing this the reader and analyzer is forced to speculate when sketching the characters and deciphering what the subject of the argument is.

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The soundest theory of the subject of negotiation is that it is about abortion.  We are only given the girl’s name in the story, her name is Jig. The “American” wants Jig to have an abortion as throughout the dialogue is attempts to convince Jig to go through with the operation, “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig”. The assumption that must be made is that the American wants the operation as he is afraid of responsibility that will come with the child.

It is clear that Jig does not want the abortion. This statement cannot be fully substantiated by ...

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