"Hills Like White Elephants"

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This paper discusses how Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" presents the reader with the question of whether or not the girl, Jig, receives an abortion and also how the relationship between the American man and the girl survive this important decision. It looks at how Hemingway is ambiguous throughout the telling of story, utilizing dialogue, diction and symbols to make his point and how every aspect of the story holds significance and relays to the readers varying interpretations of the story. The paper makes several references to critic Stanley Renner and his dissertation on Hemmingway's short story.

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"In Renner's criticism of Hemmingway's Hills Like White Elephants he takes a unique approach. Acknowledging opposing, simplistic views that girl concedes to the man's needs and has the abortion he believes that the girl discovers her own desires, "only when she discovers her own mind and takes charge of her own life does she become mature and a woman" (Renner 9). Renner's view takes a more positive look at Hemmingway's writing, rather than making the girl the victim, she triumphs is able to get what she wants and maintain her relationship. At the conclusion of the story Renner's concept is validated through the last conversation between the girl and the man."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hemingway, Ernest. "Hills Like Elephants." The Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 4th Edition. Eds. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. 209 -212.
• Kozikowski, Stanley. "Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants" The Explicator. Washington: Winter 1994. Vol. 52, Iss. 2; pg 107, 3 pgs.
• Renner, Stanley. "Moving to the Girl's side of Hills Like White Elephants. The Hemingway Review. Vol. 15.n1 (Fall 1995): pp27(15).

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