ABSTRACT

The ecofeminism is always a tendency for the study classics. The purpose of this thesis is to dig out the story and the fate of the heroine in the Hills like White Elephants, then learning the relationships between the human and nature, male and female, which was expressed by Hemingway from the aspect of ecofeminist. By probing the relationship between woman and nature in Hemingway's short story Hills Like White Elephant, we can see women are subordinate to patriarchy in society and that this subordination is directly linked to the exploited nature, and the consequence of the oppression both to women and nature is the loss of vitality of the earth. Only by constructing an equal relationship can we realize a harmonious society.

Key Words：Hemingway, feminism, ecofeminism
 
摘要

生态女性主义是经典作品文学研究的一个动向。本文的目的是通过对《白象似的群山》中女性主角的故事、命运的挖掘，从生态女性主义的角度解读海明威笔下的自然与人类关系、女性与男性关系，从而揭示他对重构男性和女性间的平等和睦、互蕴共荣的关系的希望以及对人类和自然和谐共处的局面的渴望。通过对海明威小说白象似的群山中女人和男人关系的探索，我们可以发现女人在这个社会中是从属于父权的，同时这种从属关系又直接与自然的利用相联系。对女人和自然的压迫是地球失去活力的结果，只有通过建立一种平等的关系我们才能实现和谐的社会。

关键词: 海明威，女性主义，生态女性主义
 
1. Introduction
1.1 Background information
People shall never forget and value for the rest of their life when reading Hemingway’s short story Hills Like White Elephants. For a long period, in the comments on this short story, the researchers always focus on the interpretation and illation, but not on the careful reading and appreciation.
As we all know that Hemingway’s image of the unyielding man impressed people a lot. We surely consider that male characters are always in the dominant position in his stories, on the other hand, the female is the “puppet without discourse power”, they serve as a contrast or foil in the male world. However, if we analyze his stories in the direction of ecofeminist, it is not difficult for us to realize Hemingway has an insight into the women’s misery, which has surpassed the tunnel vision of the other male writers. At the same time, he tries to rethink profoundly how to solve the dilemma of surviving and ecology in the human society, which is dominated by the patriarchal culture. His cognition of human and nature, male and female, and the interdependent relationships between people have expressed his ecofeminist sensibility adequately.