Imaginative Vs. Practical (Hills like White Elephants)
...ills, the painting on the curtain, “…fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Faraway, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain…” As you can see, she is also very imaginative to see the size and brightness of the hills as white elephants, which also refer to the unwanted baby that she is carrying. In addition, Jig cares more about her future and her lover’s feeling, “…Then what will we do afterward? …And you think then we’ll be all right and happy? …”, but tries to avoid the issue at the present, “…I don’t care about me…can’t we may be stop talking…would you please please please stop talking…” On the other hand, the American man is more practical. He looks at the luggage that recorded their carefree and happy past, at the track as a way for him to move on to escape the responsibilities and at the drinking people who “waiting reasonably for the train” as he is a reasonable one in the conversation. Likewise, he doesn’t has an imaginative mind to see the white elephants, “I’ve never seen one”. In contrast with Jig, he is the one wants to deal with the issue right away. He is unaware of her feeling and tries to dominate and persuades her to do the operation. In addition, Hemingway also used landscape to symbolize the dissimilarity between the two characters. He describes the barren land as brown, dry and lifeless without any tree, which represents the ...