Hills_Like_White_Elephants,_Metaphorically

Hills Like White Elephants, Metaphorically Having read Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” several times, it seems to be a story that doesn’t make much sense. The two main characters, the American man and his female companion referred to as “girl”, are having a conversation that supports this theory. Their conversation turns into a short, familiar argument, but one that isn’t clear, even having read it several times. In the introduction preceding the short story, it states that “Hemingway has a concise way of developing a plot through dialogue and once explained how he achieved an intense compression by comparing his method to the principle of the iceberg: There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story” (pg. 233). What this tells the reader is that Hemingway explained many things through the use of metaphors, leaving only the unknown. The question the reader must then ask is what is the metaphor in “Hills Like White hills, white, elephants, girl, story, man, american, pg, having, through, reader, it’s, because, 235, young, two, times, spain, really, operation, make, hills, hemingway, doesn’t, conversation, between, angry, women, without, white, very, things, something, several, seems, read, mountains, i’ll