This one is kinda late --- sorry about that.
The three short stories I read were "The Sniper", "The Return", and "Hills Like White Elephants".
There were several things in the short stories that could have been the basis of a thesis statement. "The Sniper" gives you a good bit of background information while feeding the reader the thoughts and actions of the main character. This could be helpful in drawing conclusions about the story, based on the information given to me. In "The Return", the author uses descriptive language as a way for the reader to construct the scene with more emotional content. It could also have ground for a strong thesis.
The last one I read was "Hills Like White Elephants". It talks about a situation that the characters have, but it never really explains what it is. It's some sort of medical operation that the man thinks the woman should get, but the woman isn't sure about it. The stuff they talk about led me to believe they are talking about an abortion... but then I asked myself, "Why is she drinking beer if she is pregnant?'" The answer is simple: medical professionals wouldn't have known about the dangerous situation she would have put her baby in at the time of this story, because Ernest Hemingway lived back in the mid 20th century.
Hills Like White Elephants was a bit confusing to me too, though I also believed they were talking about an abortion. Though I didn't catch the part about the beer, which I find interesting now.
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