Sunday, March 9, 2014
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway was...
When I reached the continuous dialogue in "Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway, I started to feel anxious. I felt like the characters were skirting around a problem the whole time, and I just wanted to say- out with it already! I guess this shows how realistic the dialogue is though. In life, people usually don't get to the point right away (I think we talked about that in class...) and also, most of what people say is not poetic, it's just every day talk. For example, phrases used in the short story such as, "It's all right" (336) and "I guess so" (336) made the characters seem like real people to me. Though as I said, I started reading faster and faster to see what happened because I was getting annoyed with the ambiguity of it all!
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This is a good description of the feeling produced by a subtext. You felt that there was something underneath their dialogue and the arguments on the surface (like the one about the hills looking like elephants), and you wanted to read forward to uncover that subtext.
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