Tuesday, October 9, 2018

ernest hemingway "Hills like white elephants"


This short story has so many interpretations I simply do not know where to start. at first i thought, the story tells of a couple who doesnt really gets along and is awaiting a train at a train station to head somewhere. Ernest lets us know this couple frequently travels as their luggage has many labels from all the hotels they have resided at. The couple has a long interesting dialogue in the middle of the short story. The couple seems to avoid problems and apparently are going through a lot. Ernest details how they get along, although I can't confidently say they never get along, it would seem so, whenever tensions get high they reach "common ground" , the guy seems to be very convincing and avoids confrontation by assuring the girl (Jig) that he's willing to do anything she wants to do, although he never actually wants to do what she wants to do, he just tells her he's fine with her choice and when she tries to tell him what she wants he just says "but look at things this way, its good this way, you dont like it this way"

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