Representation of the City in Hemingway’s “Old Man at the Bridge”, “Hills like White Elephants”, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” and “A Capital of the World”

Abstract

The research paper is based on examining the presentation of the city as the in the selected stories of Ernest Miller Hemingway; “Old Man at the Bridge”, “Hills like White Elephants”, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” and “A Capital of the World”. Besides, I have studied and used the theories of modernism.

The significance of this research is about how the different situation and consequences play a significant role in rendering the life in city for the characters. Most of the modernist writers mention about the city instead of villages in their creations. Hence, what I got to find is that each and every elite from modernist era mention about the city either in this way or that way in their writings. City is seen as the final destination for survival to those who are main victims of the great World War I and European Civil War. The both war played a significant role dislocation of the society. Though city life has many struggles and obstacles, every character fight to get over it and be more enthusiastic on having better life and move on. So, in order to change their life dominated from old traditions and cultural values to the new one they shift themselves in the territory of the city, full of potentiality and prosperity.