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《American short story masterpieces》课件6--hills like white elephants.doc

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Passag Six Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 Hemingway finished writing Hills Like White Elephants while on his honeymoon in France in May 1927. His second wife was Catholic, and Hemingway also considered himself to be Catholic at the time, which could be significant, given the subject matter of this story. Perhaps thats why he set the story in Spain, one of the most traditional and Catholic countries in Europe in the I92os. Hemingway explained, “I met a girl in Prunier where Id gone to eat oysters before lunch. I knew shed had an abortion. I went over and we talked, not about that, but on the way home I thought of the story, skipped lunch, and spent that afternoon writing it. This anecdote exemplifies Hemingways writing technique: what is said merely hints at and suggests the wealth of what is not said. Hills Like White Elephants The hills across the valley of the Ebro1 (a river in northern Spain) were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went on to Madrid. What should we drink? the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. “Its pretty hot,” the man said. Lets drink beer. Dos cervezas (a kind of drink), the man said into the curtain. Big ones? a woman asked from the doorway. Yes. Two big ones. The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put the felt pads and the beer glasses on the table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. They look like white eleph