The Conception of Irreversibility

Hannah Arendt and Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”

Authors

  • Jennifer Yirinec University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Hannah Arendt, Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants, irreversibility of action, abortion and ethical choice, rhetoric and dialogue analysis, existential decision-making

Abstract

An analysis of Hannah Arendt’s concept of irreversibility in Hemingway’s powerful short story.

Author Biography

  • Jennifer Yirinec, University of South Florida

    Jennifer Yirinec is a master’s student in the English literature program at the University of South Florida. She is Managing Editor of The Mailer Review, and her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, urban studies, and psychoanalytic theory.

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Norris Mailer: A Life in Words

Section

Articles