Essay Comparing The White Horse And Hills Like White Elephants

The paper will be looking at the comparison and the contrast that is presented in the short stories, "The White Horse" by Yasunari Kawabata and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. Specifically, this comparative analysis will look into the element of setting and the conflict presented in the stories.
The setting in the story "The White Horse" is in Japan. Specifically, we are introduced to a character by the Noguchi. He is pondering about his life and from where he is standing there are a number of oak trees that are clustered together. There is a conspicuous oak tree that has a thick trunk and stretches tall above the rest. There is also the mention of the summer sun that slid down behind the oak trees. From where he is he cannot see the sun's disk due to the thickly intermeshed leaves of the oak tree. At some point from the summit of the trees, he can see a figure like that of a white horse that leapt upward and makes a gallop across the gray sky. This figure was not clear and so is the form or the color of its rider (Bausch, 426).

The American man and the girl are in a conflict where the man insists on the girl having an operation but the girl is not of the idea. She seems to be making herself brave to undergo the operation but we can see clearly that she is frightened of committing her to this kind of operation. She is uncertain of the outcome of the results of the operation despite the American trying to convince her that the operation under consideration is a normal operation (Johnston, 234).Even as the train arrives despite the girl saying "fine" we get to understand that the conflict is unresolved. She seemed hurt by the man's patronizing nature as she is deeply apprehensive about the operation that will be conducted in Madrid. Unlike in the story of The White Horse the conflict here is among the characters and not an internal conflict within an