Title
Ernest Hemingway: Repetition, Stylization and Dialogue in "Hills Like White Elephants"
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Close reading focusing specifically on repetition in dialogue. Concludes that this repetition allows for varied interpretations based on how much of Hemingway’s “authorial voice” the reader perceives in the voices of his characters.
Published in
Wise Economies: Brevity and Storytelling in American Short Stories
Date
1997
Pages
159-172
COinS
Citation
Curnutt, Kirk. “Ernest Hemingway: Repetition, Stylization and Dialogue in ‘Hills Like White Elephants.’” In Wise Economies: Brevity and Storytelling in American Short Stories, 159-72. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1997.