Comparing Where Are you going, Where Have You Been and Hills Like White

Authors of great stories often use good technical writing skills. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two short stories Where Are you going, Where progress to You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and Hills Like White Elephants by Earnest Hemingway. The comparison and contrast will be done based on their use of plot, head teacher of view and character development. The short story where are you going, where have you been is around a teenage girl who is, vain, self-doubting and affixed in the present. She does not know anything or so the past or doubts it and has no plan of the future. She argues with her mother and she thinks she is jealous of her. The start of the plot is not very dramatic preferably it is more like an introduction. We lose a good description of the storys Protagonist, Connie at the beginning of the story and through out. She is familiar, the typical American teenager, who dream, fantasize and have difficulty differentiating the veridical world from f airytale. Kozikowsky compares the story to the popular recent Disney tale Cinderella (1999). In Where are you going, where have you been? the setting of the story is not revealed at the beginning. The reader slowly learns about Connies family and her living condition throughout the story.In Hills Like Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, there is no dramatic situation at the beginning of the story either, rather He starts by giving us a detailed description of the setting. The reader gets a clear mental image of where the story will scud place. The Author begins the story by introducing the scene since it will have a great significance in understanding the many symbolisms he will be using later. Some experts say that Although there is a situation, there is no plot ( Henningf... ... short story.Works cited Henningfeld, Diane Andrews. Hills Like White Elephants. Short Stories for Students. Detroit Gale, 2002. belles-lettres imaging Center. Gale Kozikowski, Stan. The Wishes and Dreams Our Hearts Make in Oatess Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. Journal of the Short Story in English. 33 (Autumn 1999) 89-103. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit Gale, 2004. 89-103. Literature resource Center. Gale. Renner, Stanley. Moving to the girls side of Hills Like White Elephants.. The Hemingway Review. 15.1 (Fall 1995) p27. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Weeks, Lewis E., Jr. Hemingway Hills Symbolism in Hills like White Elephants. Studies in Short Fiction. 17.1 (Winter 1980) 75-77. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit Gale, 75-77. Literature Resource Center. Gale.