Hemingway’s short story Hills Like White Elephants I think that the focalization is omniscient even though it is easily interpreted as external focalization and here is why. The point of view switches easily from a bird view and very detailed description of the landscape surrounding the train station, then narrows down to the main characters The American and The Girl/Jig's dialogue and also finally (though very briefly) into both character's thoughts and minds at the end of the story. The narration shows just the tip of the ice berg and leaves a lot of interpretation to reader (SparkNotes. (2007). Hills Like White Elephants. Retrieved 24/9 2015, http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/hills-like-white-elephants/section2.rhtml) and this in some ways leaves the omniscient narrator deliberately restricted, because he does not want to show too much of the setting and ruin the suspense of the story for the readers. That is the reason why it is so hard to take any of the two character sides throughout the storyline. The plot and how the two main characters interact with each other illustrate very stereotypical gender roles. The American is shown as a strong, unbending, independent, masculine and static character, while the Girl/Jig is helpless, confused and literally dependant on The American who speaks Spanish, but she is more of a dynamic character in my opinion thanks to her realization in the later part of the story (Murfin, Ross, and Supryia M. Ray 2003:52-53). The internal author uses a language which features a very patriarchal structure, which is even further confirmed when he refers to the female character as a “Girl” and not a woman and that the American refer to her as “Jig”. She is portrayed as young and naive and perhaps even something temporarily and swift (Barry 2002:5).

Woolf’s short story Slater's Pins Have No Points uses a focalization which is internal and a stream of consciousness from the narrator’s perspective. The text is trying to explore more of a woman’s independent way of thinking and also hints towards that the narrator (who is also the main character) is a homosexual and wants to show her desires through Ecriture Feminine. As Virginia Woolf has suggested herself in her other work, language use is gendered. And throughout this short story questions starts to emerge if there even is a form of language which is inherently feminine and if it is generally accepted (Peter Barry 2002:4-5). What furthers proves this point is also how I interpret this type of narration. I found it extremely hard to make any sort of sense out of the storytelling and felt frustrated after my first reading. And only after several readings and further analytical tools which were provided through Peter Barry’s work, I realised that I was trying to look for the more common grammatical andphallocentric structures which were not even intended to be there in the first place.