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The most striking feature of the short story "Hills Like White Elephants," written by Hemingway, was that it was told with symbolism. It is not a story in the classical sense with an introduction, a development of the story, and an end; but we just get some time in the life of two people, as if it were just a piece of a film where we have a lot to deduce. This story does not give everything to the reader; we only see the surface of what is going on. It leaves an open end; readers can have their own ending and therefore take part in the story when reading.

The story told here is that of a girl and a man in their trip to a place where she can have an abortion. Everything in the tale is related to the idea of fertility and barrenness. This main topic is from the title "Hills Like White Elephants," where Hills refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and White Elephants is an idiom that refers to useless or unwanted things. In this case, the unwanted thing is the fetus......

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