Protagonists’ Predicament in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”

<em>Hills Like White Elephants</em> is one of the short stories written by American writer Ernest Hemingway, which mainly about conversations between an man and a girl who are arguing whether she should receive abortion procedure when waiting for express train from Barcelona to Madrid. This paper aims analyse protagonists’ predicament through stylistics fiction as research perspective comes conclusion that facing disillusion traditional values dysfunction original morality under attack wars, protagonists representatives “the lost generation” suffers trauma wanders around world, only find out there’s no corner them rest elude away loneliness.