Essays on Hills Like White Elephants

“When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk” Karen Jay Fowler. Ernest Hemingway has an indirect and subtle way to introduce conflict with his writing. The developing conflict in Hills Like White Elephants is very subtle, and is approached with avoidance. Alcohol...

“Hills Like White Elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway, is about a man and woman at a train station in the middle of nowhere surrounded by hills and field, it seems like they are a happy couple that’s traveling together but the woman is pregnant and the man wants the woman to have an abortion but...

Have you ever been to a “white elephant gift” exchange, or heard someone talk about avoiding “the elephant in the room”? In both expressions, the world’s largest mammal is used as a symbol of its size, but with different meanings. In “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway uses both meanings as a way of symbolizing...