Hills Like White Elephants

   The point of view in “Hills Like White Elephants” caused the story to become very confusing to me. It felt as if I were just listening into a part of someone else’s conversation. It provided no backstory or emotion from the character. The only time that I could tell any type of emotion was when the girl became angry with the man and told him to stop talking. This all caused me to not be able to relate to the characters and their emotions. Relating to characters is important to me because that causes me to become more attached to them and actually care about what happens to them. In this case, I felt no type of attachment to them when I first read this. Instead, all I felt was confusion.

    I was unsure about what the characters were discussing, when I first read the story. This was caused by the point of view. Now that I look back and know what they were discussing, I understand some of the clues the author put into their conversation. I had never read anything, other than plays, written with no type of insight to characters emotions, so when I first read this story I was confused. To be able to better understand stories with this type of point of view, I will have to read similar stories to make myself more familiar.