Hills Like White Elephants
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"", written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes place in
Spain while a man and woman wait for a train. The story is set up as a dialogue between the two, in which the man is trying to convince the woman to do something she is hesitant in doing. Throughout the story, Hemingway uses ....
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.... making the reference to the hills having skin—an enlarged mound forming off of what was once flat. The man views pregnancy as the opposite. When the girl is talking about the white elephants and agrees that the man has never seen one, his response is, "I might have, just because you say I haven’t doesn’t prove anything" (170). This shows the defensive nature of the man, and when the woman implies the he is unable to differentiate between what is beautiful and what is not. ....
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