Symbolic comparisons Hills Like White Elephants and Reunion
Alison Leslie English 120 Jim Andersen October 12,2004 Reunions of Elephants It takes many different features to create s unique and captivating story. ... Ernest Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants and John Cheever’s Reunion are two stories that use these types of functions to do just this. ... With the use of powerful objects such as trains and their stations and very significant settings like the bar(s) in which the characters interact gives the readers a compelling idea on what is going on in with each of the characters and the personal conflict in which they are facing. ... In Reunion the story also starts with a train station, but the train setting is very different in the way it is only a brief meeting in time. Unlike “Jig” and “the American”, Charlie the boy from Reunion is already heading in a certain direction and uses this train as a stop to find something. ... Much like the Father in Reunion the bar places him in a position of power and control over his surroundings. ... Ernest Hemingway used the title: Hills Like White Elephants, and when broken down it gives the readers an indication of what the story will entail. When looked at a “White Elephant” is a catchy phrase that people use for unwanted junk in their lives. ... The hills can take on two meanings, the first as a feminine image of a swollen stomach again representing the unwanted pregnancy.