Ernest Hemmingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is not a story in the clasical

sense with an introduction, a development of the story, and an end. We only get some

time in the life of two people, as if it were just a piece of a film where we have a lot do

deduce. This story does not give everything done for the reader, we only see the

surface of what is going on. It leaves an open end, readers can have their own ending

and therefore take part in the story. A masterpiece of external narration, there seems

to be no focal point in the characters. One must only here what is said, not what is

thought by the two main characters, the American and Jig. Hemmingway's third person

narrator takes an objective position outside of the characters, thus providing a look from

an third person point of

destination of the train which they are awainting. It is not known exactly where they are

The first impression one will get when reading the text is that one is in

obtained, it looses the origional appeal.

One can see that the story setting is in Spain, but one does not know the final

when one waits for something for a long time, for instance a relationship, once it is

the air in." In reality he is the one with the doubts. He knows that having a baby would

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