In Hemingway's "Hill's like White Elephants" and Joyce's "Eveline" the settings of the stories are similar. Both stories describe an emotionally and socially lonely environment. In Hemingway's story he describes two sets of tracks going different directions. One set of tracks would take Jig towards the abortion, where afterwards her and the American would live the life that they have been living. The other set of tracks would take her in the other direction, and to keep the child and that she fells like she needs in her life, but she would risk loosing the American. Either way she will lose something that is important to her whether it be the child or the American. In Joyce's story, Eveline processes her decision in a place that she is surrounded by familiarity. Eveline is not completely comforted by Frank, even though he tells her that everything will be fine. "In her home

Symbols are used throughout "Eveline" and "Hills like White Elephants" to show the emotional and social loneliness. Symbols are used to express the emotional and social loneliness the characters feel about their decisions. In "Hills like White Elephants", while Jig is at the train station, she notices the hills to resemble white elephants. We relate this to her pregnancy because the American she is with does not want the child. The American feels like it will be a burden on their lives. If Jig was to proceed with the abortion they "can have everything"(250), "we can have the whole world" (250), "we can go everywhere" (250). Jig feels the need to have someone in her life that will socialize with her on more of an intimate level. While discussing the matter at hand, "The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees" (250). The shadow of the cloud represents death, foreshadowing of the abortion. In "Eveline", Joyce uses the word dust to symbolize the suffocation that Evelin

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