"Hills Like White Elephant" by Ernest Miller Hemingway.

Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" touches on an issue that human has been facing since Adam and Eve, which are communication problems in a relationship between a man and a woman. Here, he tells his story through conversations between the two main characters, a man, who was not given a name and a girl, simply known as Jig. Here, I will try my best to analyse the narrative point of view of …showed first 75 words of 913 total…

…showed last 75 words of 913 total…much." Wouldn't that be much easier than remaining silent and starring at the lovely hill? But if that happened, the story would have begun and ended in a couple of dull paragraphs, making it a very, very short story. I feel that the unique aspect of this extract is the element of the unknown; it is the privilege of the readers to fill in the blanks, to tie up loose ends at our own discretion.