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"I feel fine," she said. "There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine." (qtd. in Long Maozhong, Yan Jinglan and Wang Hui 388 ) There is no any word to show the destiny of the girl. No one knows if she will have an abortion operation and no one knows the tendency of their relationship. For readers, not any thing is clear. So it is better to say that it is just an ending of a dialogue, but not a story. Although it doesn’t mention where they will go, the dialogue may continue when they are on the train or other places. So the ending of the story is suspensive. The author makes enough space to let the reader exert all their imaginative powers. Discriminated from other writers, such as Balzac, an obvious feature in the ending of Hemingway’s story is that he usually uses dialogue to instead of narration. As a matter of fact, the dialogue is extremely concise and compact, and the main figure’s feeling is fully reflected by it, and it is more powerful and stronger than the narration by the author. No wonder at the end of the Old Goriot Balzac also lets Rastignac say out: “Henceforth there is war between us.” E. Deliberate Hiding---Iceberg Theory Literature is a kind of language art. Hemingway undoubtedly makes good use of this art that he had created a kind of Iceberg Theory style. Everyone knows that Hemingway is very famous for his “Iceberg Theory”. He had ever said about his writing style: “If a writer of the prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” As a matter of fact, in Hemingway’s own words, the feature of his Iceberg Theory is to omit something that both the author and the reader know, and the essence of it is to explore the hidden seven-eight facts through the only one-eight obvious fact. That is to say, the “Iceberg Theory” is just a kind of art of omission. According to it, both the concise language and the characteristic ending mentioned before should be included in his Iceberg Theory. Hemingway deliberately hides many feelings of his novel to let the reader to explore them. Most people hold that the Old Man and the Sea should be considered as Hemingway’s characteristic works, which fully reflects his Iceberg style. However, as a short story, which is born earlier and much shorter than The Old Man and the Sea, Hills Like White Elephants can also show this Iceberg Theory completely. First of all, being different from European traditional writing style which is inclined to introduce the story’s background at the beginning carefully, Hemingway tends to leave out the background of his stories. In the Hills Like White Elephants, the story begins with simple description about the position of the story and a real-life dialogue without introducing the background. However, just through the content of the dialogue between the two figures, the reader can understand what their relationship is and what happens on them. Secondly, it omits the intensely full-face conflict. The story goes on with arbitrary dialogues, in which the conflict between the two figures is just hidden. Only when the girl says out “Would you please please please please please please stop talking.” the conflict unveils. Furthermore, the dispensable description about the proverbial information in th