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An 11 page analysis of this short story by Ernest Hemingway. The paper shows how Hemingway’s distress over his first wife’s pregnancy and the constraints it put on his life is reflected -- but not entirely resolved -- in this fictional work. Two-page annotated bibliography lists ten sources.
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File: D0_KBhills.doc
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the bulls in Pamplona, fighting the Spanish Civil War, on safari in Africa, deep-sea fishing in Cuba. Given Hemingways overwhelming love for physical action, it is remarkable that he ever
sat still long enough to become a writer at all. And yet he became one of the great names in American literature, primarily because men saw in his male characters
the quintessentially masculine qualities that characterized what they themselves would like to be. However, in stories such as "Hills Like White Elephants," Hemingway depicted his characters in a way that
is brutally honest, but does not necessarily cast the male in a particularly good light. "Hills Like White Elephants" tells the story of a young couple faced with the
difficult decision of whether to abort the womans child. This sad situation, just like Hemingways stories based on bullfighting or war, were based on his own experience -- in this
case the difficulty of accepting his first wifes pregnancy, and his reluctance to become a father. Hemingways life, from his earliest boyhood, emphasized ruggedness and virility. He played high
school football; an injury sustained there kept him out of the Army initially, but he was able to convince a Red Cross ambulance unit to take him on as a
driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe during the height of World War I (Roth, 450). He was seriously wounded in Italy, and incurred nearly
a dozen operations to restore complete function to his knee, which was now surmounted with an aluminum kneecap. Decorated for bravery (recklessness is probably more like it), he returned to
the front and finished out the war. Psychologically, it is clear that the war imbued Hemingway with a sense of restlessness he was never quite able to shake. John K.
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