Comparison of Hills like White Elephants and FAT
Both Hill like White Elephants and FAT are short stories about current
issues that have to be resolved. The issue in FAT regards obesity in
America and is shown as a conversation between the narrator and
‘Rudy’. Hills like White Elephants, however, the issue is abortion and
the author uses direct speech creating the effect that we are near the
couple, eavesdropping on the conversation. In FAT, the author uses
indirect speech because the person is retelling the past events to a
friend. He does this to make it seem as if he is describing it to us
(us being the friend). This creates trust for the narrator.
To create the illusion of conversation and focus the reader on the
issue at hand, in both stories authors do not develop the character
fully. This is to ensure we focus on the action and the characters’
situation. This also emphasises in fact that this is a situation that
can effect anyone. In Hills like White Elephants this is performed by
only using the characters’ names once to increase their anonymity.
However, this does give a clue the background/culture of the pair,
e.g. Jig is definitely not a European name and appears to be more of a
nickname, perhaps again emphasising the youth of the girl. This is
because nicknames are more commonly used amongst children then adults.
The uses of just ‘man’ also generalises the piece and makes him a
representative of males in western society and their attitudes. Either
this, or Hemmingway just trying to give a snapshot of a moment in
strangers’ lives which adds to the air of detachment. This detachment
from the characters helps us to engage with the issue as readers and
makes us feel empathy towards the girl and ...
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...ionship of any
kind. At the end of the day, humans are social animals who like to
feel part of a community and it is therefore striking when these
characters are so obviously outcasts.
However, the ending in FAT is very different to the ending in Hills
like White Elephants. In Hills like White Elephants, the train comes
and the couple leave, unlike in FAT where the narrator and Rudy get in
bed and then as soon as Rudy ‘gets on [her]’ she feels ‘terrifically
fat’. We are not told why this is but we know ‘[her] life is going to
change’. This is also shown by the mention of ‘it is August’, the
change between summer and winter. Therefore, we can only assume that
her outlook has changed as well as her prejudice. This makes the
reader empathetic towards the fat man and we see that, like abortion,
obesity is an issue that needs to be understood to be resolved.
Christa Kurkjian explains in her paper, Is “Fat” the New “F” Word?, that Carver transforms the social norm of being fat—and ugly—to something of a “saving grace” (Kurkjian 3). However, I have to disagree with Kurkjian on her thesis. I truly do not feel Carver’s intent for Fat is to transform the word “fat,” but to elaborate on how people perceive fat.
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that we do know is that he is a friend of Mr White. The adjectives
What is irony? Is there more than one irony? How do when know if something is ironic? All of these questions will be answered throughout the essay but the main focus is the different types of irony in each story. In The Story of an Hour and in Hills Like White Elephants there are different types of irony such as dramatic, situational and verbal. Which one has only one type of irony or does all types of irony appear in both stories.
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