In the short stories "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway and "Araby" by James Joyce we see that love is the conflict presented in both stories. ... In "Araby" a young boy is experiencing his first feelings of love. ... At the end of the story when he arrives at the bazaar as it is closing down and he describes, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger" (Joyce, Pg. 362). ... Both the boy from "Araby" and Jig from "Hills Like White Elephants...

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