Blog #1

Hemingway's piece "Hills Like White Elephants" is a perfect example of his own unique style of writing. At first glance the short story seems to appear as an aimless conversation between two people at a train stop. Although, upon further investigation it is discovered that the couple is actually talking about having an abortion and parting ways. Hemingway cloaks the true underlying tension between the two by use of his own iceberg theory, in which he reveals only a small portion of the story while concealing the full story in the dialogue and narrative. At the surface the story looks like a simple exchange, but as you venture deeper the story holds a plethora of symbols and themes. One being in the title itself, "white elephants" representing the unborn child inside of the girl in the story, and the whole story basically revolves around the "white elephant". In my opinion I thought the story was very interesting because of Hemingway's own specific style of subtext.