Comparison of Hills like White Elephants and A Rose For Emily
... In the short stories “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A Rose for Emily”, setting is used to reveal characters and conflict through both the physical setting and the social cultural setting. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, the physical setting is at a train station in the Valley of the Ebro. ... They man is trying to convince the girl to get an abortion, during their conversation they are drinking and looking at the side of the valley that is described as “White in the sun and the country was brown and dry” a very unhealthy view. ... In “A Rose for Emily” the characters are revealed more through a social cultural setting than through physical setting. ... Emily experienced conflict with people in the town due to changes that had occurred in her life.