![]() On the other hand, claims to have never seen a white elephant, a Gift, a seemingly remote but immense problem" (107). ![]() Within her womb-a connection that Stanley Kozikowski makes: "HillsĪre like white elephants for Jig because they carry ambivalentĮvocations of the child within her like a white elephant, an unwanted That they require attention and disallow negotiation, much like the baby Views the hills as white elephants, as entities so large and powerful The American responds, "I've never seen one" (211). Remarks that the hills "look like white elephants," to which Outside the bar, the couple enters into dialogue the dilemma at handīeing whether or not the couple should (or can) have an abortion and As David Wyche perceptively states, "This bit ofĭialogue establishes the characters' opposing positions in what is,Įssentially, an emotionally charged negotiation" (61). The distance, as this moment initiates the heated philosophicalĭiscussion. Situation in the exchange begun by Jig's comment about the hills in Statements undermine his attempts to do so. Throughout the story the American attempts to articulate andĪdvance his belief in reversibility. "undone," so to say, or living in such a way where actions Living-either living in such a way so that actions can be Life-reveals that the couple is also choosing between two ways of Thisįorty-minute exchange determining the end decision-abortion or "n choosing whether to abort or to have the child, the coupleĪre choosing between two ways of life" (28). Girl's Side of 'Hills Like White Elephants,'" As Stanley Renner proffers in his "Moving to the ![]() Her cannot be undone, while the American argues against irreversibility,Īs he believes that the conception can be "undone" by the act (and promotes) the concept of irreversibility, as she suggests that theĬonception of life (an action, in essence, as it is a beginning) within Jig, in her overtly rhetorical exchanges with the American, illustrates Topic of their combative dialogue, as critics have noted (Gilletteĥ0-69 O'Brien 19-25 Rankin 234 Urgo 35). Than considerations of the potential abortion, which is the explicit (2) That is to say, the issue is far more important Influential study, The Human Condition, suggests that the dissonanceįound in the relationship between Jig and the American primarily arisesįrom their differing viewpoints regarding the Arendtian notion of The "nature of action." More specifically, Arendt's "Hills," which suggest traces of Arendt's perspectives on I would like to begin by examining certain rhetorical elements of Intellectual whose germinal work has transcended more than oneĭiscipline, may be useful in providing some measure of insight into The irreversibility of action within the text. Hemingway's most powerful short stories, "Hills Like WhiteĮlephants." However, one approach that may merit more attention isĪn exploration of Hemingway's notions of "action" and of THERE HAS BEEN A PLETHORA OF CRITICISM examining one of Ernest ![]() APA style: The conception of irreversibility: Hannah Arendt and Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'.The conception of irreversibility: Hannah Arendt and Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'." Retrieved from MLA style: "The conception of irreversibility: Hannah Arendt and Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'." The Free Library.
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