Friday 5 June 2009

Who are the charecters in the story written by Hemingway called "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Characters, as you probably know, are the
agents in a work of that cause action and create conflict and drive plot. They are
thepersonalities about whom we care, with whom our imaginations interact,who develop images and
themes of life and living. In some instances,characters can be non-human creatures or, in rare
instances, inanimateobjects. The Wind in the Willows is an illustration of
the first for it is peopled with moles, rats, badgers, toads. The House of the Seven
Gables
is an illustration of the second in which the house where Hepzibah lives is an
integral part of all that occurs.

In "" there are two central
characters, andone central character who is inferred though never introduced. There isone minor
character who interacts with the first two and facilitatestheir interaction. There are
characters who are mentioned and provideinsight into the character of the American man but who
have no discernible role in the action.

Coming back, he
walked through the bar-room, where people waiting for the train were drinking. He drank an Anis
at the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably for the train.


The two central characters are the American man and his girlfriend
who is the only one who has a name--she is called Jig.

The
American and the girl with him sat at a table inthe shade, outside the building. It was very hot
and the express fromBarcelona would come in forty minutes.


The character who is inferred is the unborn baby of Jig's pregnancy. The minor
character is the woman who brings them their drinks through the symbolic beads that represent
separation or dividedness. The other characters are the people in the "bar-room" who
are "all waiting reasonably for the train."

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