Hills Like White Elephants

In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway uses many literary elements to create the tone of the story. The use of irony, theme, setting, point of view, and dialogue help the reader to understand all aspects of this story.
The story is written in objective narration. This means there is no real narrator and the story tells itself through the dialogue and actions of the characters. Hemingway uses the dialogue of a man and woman to slowly reveal an argument over abortion. The dialogue of the man shows he is very much for the abortion. He does keep assuring t...