Hills Like White Elephants

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A beautiful short story written by Ernest Hemingway. Earnest Hemingway is known for winning a lot of noble prizes. He served in civil war l and published a lot of different collections in which “Men without Women” hits the peak. The short story “hills like white elephants” is taken from his collection “Men without Women “which totally based on today’s relationships. First of all, “Hills like white elephants” is the story consist of two characters a girl named “Jig” and an American man. The author opens the story with describing a view of river, which can be seen while sitting in the train. A couple is traveling to the Madrid and while they are waiting on a train, they are having an argument during beers. I mean if we look today’s relationships, it is very common to have arguments and it …show more content…

I mean in today’s relationships is kind of the same. It’s always one tries to save a relationship while the other just don’t seems to care. It happened to me once where I tried to save my relation but it didn’t work out. It only takes a little argument to break the relationship of several years. As story continues, author described the tone of conversation in going two ways, where you are saying thing indirectly! Like in this story when the guy tells the girl that he don’t want her to do abortion if she don’t want too but he will prefer it in order to move forward in this relation. He will marry her no matter what even if she don’t do abortion. I mean this is the situation in which you don’t really know what to do? And this happens to me all the time. I mean if we think about it, you have no chance to do what you think it’s good for you and you will select the option that will save your relationship. A lot of time I find this to be annoying and that’s what happened to my relationship and that’s what happened to “Jig’s” relationship in this story. She told the man to just

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