Hills Like White Elephants Themes
Language and Communication
"Hills Like White Elephants" is a rich study in human communication. Intense, focused, and concentrated, the story depicts a couple at a crisis point in their relationship. They struggle, in public...
Choices
The couple in Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants" faces a difficult situation – how to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. To further complicate the issue, it's pretty clear that one...
Identity
All of the sudden, the two characters featured in "Hills Like White Elephants" are faced with the potential of a whole new identity: that of being parents. This very short story explores what can h...
Foreignness and 'the Other'
The first sentence of "Hills Like White Elephants" contains the name of a river that might only be familiar to the geography whiz or the world traveler. The fact that this story is set in Spain for...
Drugs and Alcohol
Alcohol is more than just a prop in "Hills Like White Elephants" – it seems to be a major part of the main characters’ relationship, though it’s not clear what effect the alcohol is having on...