A Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway is a minimalist writer. He believes in showing the reader only the proverbial tip of the iceberg, leaving everything else not exactly for guess work, but more for analysis and inference, as the story is ironically so rich in detail from symbols and foreshadowing. In this paper, I seek to infer what the possible resolution of the conflict is, based on the ever so subtle wordings, clues and symbolisms Hemingway utilized in the …

…Part of me thinks that this could signal that the abortion could take place, but it completely goes against my interpretation of the ending. Another possibility might be that Jig and the American could have the baby, but due to their differences, separate. I could not make out what the dark clouds signify as "clear" as my interpretation of the ending was, which was partly why I left it out of my actual formal paper.