A good writer's objective is to say as much as possible as briefly as possible. This enables the thinking about the implications of the word's presented. Ernest Hemingway explained this idea in his "iceberg" theory of writing fiction in an interview for Paris Review: " If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There are seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows." In order to expand on the meaning of his plots and characters, Hemingway used symbols and extended meanings to supply the unstated and submerged portion of his stories. The story " Hills Like White Elephants" is an excellent example of Hemingway's "iceberg" principal with its extensive use of literary symbols.
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The story "Hills Like White Elephants" is about a man and a woman who are at a train station in Madrid, Spain. The woman is pregnant and the man and the woman are discussing whether the woman should have an abortion operation. They have only forty minutes (the time they have to wait for their train to arrive) to make their decision. At the end of the story, the woman is still not certain if she should have the abortion operation.
Another example of Hemingway's iceberg theory in the story "Hills Like White Elephants" is the two sides of the valley; " The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun." The detailed symbolism of the two sides of the valley represent the two character
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