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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 …

…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.