Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants" is no doubt one of Hemingway's most superb work. It is full of literary devices which are brilliantly used throughout the story. The setting takes place in the Ebro region of Spain and has a plethora of symbols that upon first lecture, are not easy to...
Jay Gatsby and The Bildungsroman This book, The Great Gatsby, does a great job of reflecting the Bildungsroman, which is a story that traces the development of an individual. In the story, Jay Gatsby greatly executes the steps followed in the Bildungsroman. An individual is an "apprentice to life." The protagonist is young, inexperienced, and often uneducated. Educations both in school and the "real world," are covered. ...
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses first-person retrospective narrative to take the readers into his novel. Readers receive all impressions from the narrator, Nick Carraway, who is a moral and honest man. Throughout the story, Nick introduces different characters and reveals their natures to the readers. Towards the end of the story, readers will eventually discover that Nick and Gatsby have changed, a change in Gatsby's self-identity and in Nick's morality from the beginning until the end of the novel. ...
What makes us different? How do our circumstances shape our lives? The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald examines a section of the lives of a group of people. These people vary significantly in wealth, morality, background, tendencies etc. ...
"Hills Like White Elephants," written by Ernest Hemingway, is a captivating fictional story that is filled with hidden messages, themes, and symbolism. Hemingway's short story dates back to almost ninety years ago, initially appearing in a collection titled "Men Without Women" in 1927. In "Hills Like White Elephants," the reader finds themselves eavesdropping in on a younger man and woman communicating at a train station in Zaragosa, Spain. Focusing on the dialogue between the girl "Jig" and the man identified as "The American," conflict b...
