Why is the man called the american in hills like white elephants illustrate?
Answers
The correct answer for your question is that the author doesn’t want to specify any singles person instead of a whole.
Your question is from a famous short story "Hills like White Elephants" that was penned down by Ernest Hemingway. This story is a complete conversation between a Young Woman and an American about aborting the woman’s child. It was a familiar thing that Hemingway was an ex-patriot who raised his voice against many American Ideals. In this story, Hemingway used the word “the American” to specify the prominent male character of the story. This is because that the author was a foreign narrator in this story and the story is about an uncaring American. The story runs like a narrator narrating the uncaring behavior of the American Man and by keeping him nameless, the narration will speak out against all the uncaring Americans.