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Protagonists’ Predicament in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”

Shiqi Shang
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v19.n2.p4
Abstract
Hills Like White Elephants is one of the short stories written by American writer Ernest Hemingway, which is mainly about conversations between an American man and a girl who are arguing about whether she should receive an abortion procedure when waiting for an express train from Barcelona to Madrid. This paper aims to analyse the protagonists’ predicament through stylistics of fiction as a research perspective and comes to a conclusion that facing the disillusion of traditional values and the dysfunction of original morality under the attack of wars, the protagonists are the representatives of “the lost generation” who suffers the trauma and wanders around the world, only to find out there’s no corner for them to rest and elude away the loneliness.
Keywords
Hills like White Elephants, Hemingway, Predicament, Stylistic Analysis
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