Reaction to Hills Like White Elephants

The reading for today is "Hill Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway is by far my second favourite author after F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this short story Hemingway constructs the stories and backgrounds of his characters in the mind of the reader without extended details or writing. This story constructs a relationship between a man and a young American woman that together have a decision to make. Hemingway shows their relationship in the few things the two girls say to one another. He shows the happiness of the relationship in the past and its possible failure in the future. Then in the end of the story Hemingway leaves an interpretation of the story's future to the reader. The manner in which Hemingway says so much in such concise writing is outstanding.