How can I compare "Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat" to "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Banks
story shares many similarities with Hemingways €“ in fact, you might call the Banks story a sort
of homage to Hemingway. The stories share a common structure €“ each consists primarily of a
conversation between a man and a woman €“ and a common problem €“ an unwanted pregnancy. Banks
style emulates Hemingways €“ compare, for example, this bit from Hemingway:

The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on
the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the
river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the
river through the trees.

With this bit from
Banks:

The man looked over her head and beyond, all the
way to the shore and the trailerpark. The shapes of the trailers were blurred together in the
distance so that you could not tell where one trailer left off and another began.

There are several similarities in these passages. The reductive,
factual nature of the...