Hills Like White Elephants - Quote and its symbolism

"They don't really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees."

This quote personally got my attention. If we turn back the page she clearly stated that the hills were so curvy and bright that they turn out to be like elephants, white ones. So then she says in this quote that they don't really look like white elephants. But she said something about their coloring of their skin through the trees. Maybe the fact that "through the trees" takes place in a dry and brownish land means that she just sees how bright they truly are only when she looks at the hills, thanks to these trees that could symbolize the happiness in the desert place in this short story.  

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist.

He participated in the First World War as an emergency ambulance driver. 

When he was young he used to practice boxing.

His first book was published secretly in 1923.

The actress Mariel Hemingway known by her role in the movie "Manhattan", is Ernest's grandaughter.

In 1950 some papernews published erronously his death.

He was involved in several air crashes in Africa.

Due to those air crashes he suffered several mental problems.

He won a Pulitzer in 1953.

In the Second World War Ernest took place as a war correspondent.

His work was positively criticized. Although his actions and attitudes were strongly criticized.

He got married four times.

He owned houses in La Habana, Key West, Spain, Ketchum-Idaho at the same time.

Hemingway worked as a journalist from 1917 to 1918 for the "Kansas City Star".

When he was in Cuba as a civil he armed his private boat with vigilance equipment to avoid the German submarines invasion.

He was awared with a Nobel Prize in Literature.

He was reporting when the "D Day" ocurred.

He suffered physical and psychological deseases.

His depression and poor health made him shoot himself committing suicide.

Something curios is that his father, mother, brother and sister committed suicide as well.

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