Please point out what aspects of the plot, dialogue or technique mark this story "Hills Like White Elephants" as an example of Modernism.Like...

The plot of this story
feels so fragmented
because we are left to read between the lines, inferring lots of information

based on what little is actually made explicit. We only have a vague sense that this
story is
taking place in the twentieth century, in part because of the
language used and, in part,
because of the railroad. We know we are in Spain,
but that's not terribly specific. We are
disconnected from the characters'
pasts and futures, and even from their present because of our
lack of
definite knowledge.

People are depicted realistically. They
drink,
they hide their feelings or dissemble, they carry luggage, they argue.
This is not some more
romantic depiction where people feel connected and
happy, where we don't see them engage in such
details that are true to
life.

Often, Romantic texts tend to focus on
connections
between people or even between people and Nature; this doesn't mean that a
person
cannot become alienated, but emotional, even sentimental, language is
still going...