Compare/contrastfirst impressions of the story Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," with final impressions. Upon reading "Hills" the first time, I imagined the setting, the characters but had a hard time with the purpose. It felt like I was snooping in on someones conversation trying to piece it all together. I finally realized that the operation was an abortion when I kept going over the same line "It's just to let the air in." …showed first 75 words of 1947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1947 total…keep the flies out like it was supposed to. Also, the felt coasters were under the beads to prevent the table from getting wet, but at the end of the story, the coasters were damp and the tables wet, another example of failed protection. I don't necessarily agree with this theory and think it is merely coincidence, but as it says in a page in our assignments, "skillful writers such as Hemingway do nothing accidentally!"