Answer the following questions in at least 4 sentences each. Use textual evidence in at least 2 of your responses.
1. Who are the two people getting ready to take a trip? For what purpose are the two people taking the trip? (Note that you must read carefully to discover the likely reason.) How does each of the two feel about the trip they are about to take?
2. The name of the female of the couple, Jig, is revealed to the reader, but the name of the man is not. Why does Hemingway choose to allow the man (known only as “the American”) to remain nameless to the reader?
3. Hemingway reveals few details about the physical setting, but does include descriptions of the landscape on both sides of the train tracks. On one side, the land is described with long and white hills that look like white elephants, no trees, and no shade. The landscape is brown and dry and made to seem like barren land. What might the barren side represent in the decision the couple has to make?
4. Hemingway describes the other side of the tracks with fields of grain and trees along a river bank and mountains covered by the shadow of a cloud. This landscape is made to seem fertile. What might the fertile side represent in this decision they couple has to make?
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway
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