The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. The alternate meanings can be considered "hidden meanings" as they do not directly convey any information that overtly states the hidden meaning. The information that does exist can be interpreted as hidden meanings by analyzing other signs and implications throughout the ambiguous literature. Ernest Hemingway uses a literary style called the &q...

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