Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants" (1927)

See links below for some basic analysis of the story

Structure

	Episode	Boundaries	Turn
1	Frustrated	169 - 170b "'It's lovely,' the girl said"
2	The operation	170b - 171b "if you feel that way"	171b "I don't care about me"
3	The fall	171b - 172a "Can't we maybe stop talking?"	172b "I realize . . . Can't we maybe stop talking?
4	Apart	172a - end	172b "I feel fine"

Links:

• study website for "Hills" (fairly introductory)
• hypertext of "Hills"
• Picturing Hemingway (illustrated biography), Smithsonian Institution

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Document prepared September 4th 2002