Sunday, November 1, 2009

What is the significance of the title Hills Like White Elephants?

Eleanore Trupkiewicz

The title of the short story "" by Hemingway is significant because it is the
topic of conversation between the two characters represented in the story, the girl and the
American man, and yet the conversation they are actually having with one another, almost
entirely in subtext and with very few actual spoken words, has nothing to do with their
surroundings.

The story opens with a description of the setting to establish
place and, perhaps, to indicate the tone of the scene about to happen: Despite the hills in the
distance, "there was no shade and no trees," indicative...

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