In the earlier part of the 1900's, the acclaimed Ernest Hemingway delivered to his readers a short story titled "Hills Like White Elephants." To the close minded reader, this story may have no substance other than two people having a conversation about something unknown to the reader. Yet, someone with a true understanding of literature will look deeper than the obvious and see that Hemingway has created a setting unlike any other. This setting is what gives it's story true significance.
             Immediately within the first paragraph of the story, Hemingway provides his reader with the bulk of the setting. As a reader, if you were to rush through this description, you would miss out on who the people are in the story and where they are located, without which the dialogue that follows will have no meaning. In the first sentence we are told that the station is located in the center of two train rails, and that "on this side there are was no shade and no trees." In reading on further we are told that the land on this side is brown and dry as well, giving more evidence to believe that it is safe to call this area desolate, or without any life.
             Once the reader has been given this information you are awkwardly placed on the next bar stool over to spy on this strange couple in the bar, known to you only as "the girl and the American." There is much chit-chat coming from the girl about what drink to get and how the hills on the desolate side of the tracks look like white elephants. The American seems to provide just enough feedback to keep the girl appeased, he is removed from her attempt to have a light conversation. Here the reader can clearly see how young she is, looking for his attention and being imaginative in her observation of the desolate land. It is also obvious that their relationship has become what can only be described as routine and rather mundane. As we find out lat
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