Setting in Hills Like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemingway Essay exampl

Swaying trees in the distance, grungy skies and birds chirping, all of these are examples of setting. Setting can create the mood and disembodied spirit of characters in a fable. In the story Hills Like White Elephants, the story starts out with our two characters, Jig and the American, also referred to as the man, on a train over look mountains. The girl was looking off at the cable of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry (Hemingway). In the case of this short story, the hills provided Jig something to take her mind off of the leaden conversation she was having with the Man. As said by a critic, the story itself is comprised almost entirely of dialogue. Although there is a situation, there is no plot (Henningfield). This attribute makes the story harder to identify. As the couple reached the station they sat down on a bench and continued to talk. The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station, looking at fields of grain and t rees along the banks of the Ebro (Hemingway). The location of setting plays a big role in how the characters wi...