Character Analysis: Hills Like White Elephants

ig, the protagonist and one of the main characters of “hills like white elephants” is who I have chosen to analyses and illustrate. In the start of the story jig is initially referred to as “the girl” with this statement we know she must be younger. Especially since the waitress is referred to as “a woman”. Her travel companion “the man” or latter in the story” the American” as she so lovingly calls him thru out the poem. Her character reflects the use of the word girl instead of woman. This is the start to seeing jig as the naïve young girl that she is thru out the story. Jig is uncomfortable with herself as a young girl would be that hasn’t done much finding herself. She looks to the American for approval and love. She says things to him
She continues to follow him everywhere hoping for a future. All he shows is a want for a little fun and no real future. but she continues to follow him and did the same thing over and over and over again. she drinks and looks at things, everything, with him. Continuing to do the same thing they have doe thru out their journey together as they hoped from place to place train to train. As we move thru the story we see jig start to gain some self-worth and understanding that she is not just naïve, but she has a mind of her own. She has strength to still say something and stand up for herself. She fights back with a slight push at “the American” when she lashes at him when he calls her back to him like an owner to his pet. He is reliseing she is wanting to keep the child and put him in a world he doesn’t want to be in. he tries to tell her how to feel like to keep her. She starts talking about keeping the baby. This had scared him, but it was a true show of how strong she truly is. She is growing more confident that she could take care of the child even with his negative impact. This shows thru the conversation they have on page 313, here they talk about how they could have the