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Nature often controls the fate of fictional character in stories. In ¡§Hills Like White Elephants,¡¨ nature reveals the dysfunctional relationship between the girl and her boyfriend, in which neither life nor her imagination can grow. Also, in serving as a force against which men must struggle, nature plays an important part in ¡§The Open Boat.¡¨ In addition, in ¡§The Egg,¡¨ the father¡¦s miserable fate is both mirrored by nature and controlled by its cruel cycle. Hemingway in ¡§Hills Like White Elephants¡¨ effectively uses nature to signify the unhealthy relationship between the man and the girl. Instead of green trees and colorful flowers that are growing on the hill, the girl views the hills as a white elephant¡¦s skin, which is gray and rough. Her referral of lifeless hills to the white elephant reveals that nothing could grow between her and the man. Neither her child could be raise n