American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1416 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Hills Like White Elephants"
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The idea
A man and a girl wait for a train in Spain and argue, almost entirely in dialogue, about an operation neither names. The story never states the subject, and a reader assembles it from what the two will not say, which makes it the cleanest demonstration of his method.
In practice
A whole story in what goes unsaid.
Where people slip
The subject is never named.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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