Resources for Understanding and Writing about Hemingway

The VCCS Litonline group also developed a website about Hemingway's story, "Hills like White Elephants."  As you'll see as you examine it, it contains a number of wonderful features.  The first thing you'll come to as you page through (by clicking on the train on the right at the bottom of the page) is a Site Map.  It contains links to all of the pages in this site.  Read through all of the pages.

Begin by reading pages 2 and 3 to acquire some background information about the story and a sense of the meaning of the term, "setting" in literature.   Then find out a little about Hemingway. 

Then go to the hypertext version of "Hills like White Elephants."  You'll find the short story and comments and questions about the text below when you click on one of the highlighted terms or symbols.   You may also be interested in seeing how someone else reads and interprets a story.   Please read the commentary on the story. First, read the comments and questions  and then consider if they're the same things you were thinking as you read.  If not, then try to figure out how your thinking differs from this person's interpretation.