Modernism Ernest Hemingway demonstrated in his story “Hills Like White Elephants” a style of writing that was normally present with the modernist movement, a style of writing from the beginning of the 1900s to the mid-1940s. He used things like a lack of explanation but an increase in details, images as symbolism, and using ambiguous words to let the reader choose the meaning of the story. These two things are what show that this story was a form of modernist literature. Hemingway describes the scene in “Hills Like White Elephants” as an important part in modernism. He described the railroad station as “in between two lines of railroads” with a string of curtains made of bamboo to show the setting and never once described the characters,
