Hills Like white Elephants
“Who’s Love are you to Choose”
In the "Hills like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway the setting emphasize on a decision facing a couple that disagree about whether the woman should have an abortion. The story's about a girl named Jig and her older American lover, sitting at a train station sipping drinks and discussing whether they should proceed to abort their unborn baby. Jig opposes the plan, although she refuses to say so openly. Her lover, on the other hand, sees it as a solution to their problems, and tries to convince Jig that it is the right thing to do
Jig is torn between having an abortion and that her American boyfriend does not want to have the baby. She tells her boyfriend that "we could have all this” and we could have everything". She thinks of all the possibilities and blessing this baby could bring into their lives. She also feels the need to please her boyfriend. She somehow gets reminded that all his affection and love towards her could be all hers if only she got the abortion.
Jig says, "Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe”. With the doubt of pregnancy not being an option anymore she feels that she has to kill the unborn baby due to the boyfriends beliefs that their lives would change drastically in a bad way. He feels that if she does not have the abortion his freedom will be taken from him. He feels the additional responsibility would limit his opportunities and his freedom. Jig says, "It’s ours," referring to everything the world has to offer, the man replies "no, it isn’t. And once they take it away, you can never get it back". He is telling her that once taken ‘it’—their freedom—away they will not be able to reclaim it. The boyfriend is afraid of change meanwhile Jig embraces it. With “the world giving everything it has to offer,” the best option would be to embrace it and not regret it with remorse.
In conclusion, the “Hills like White Elephants” is a story about
In the "Hills like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway the setting emphasize on a decision facing a couple that disagree about whether the woman should have an abortion. The story's about a girl named Jig and her older American lover, sitting at a train station sipping drinks and discussing whether they should proceed to abort their unborn baby. Jig opposes the plan, although she refuses to say so openly. Her lover, on the other hand, sees it as a solution to their problems, and tries to convince Jig that it is the right thing to do
Jig is torn between having an abortion and that her American boyfriend does not want to have the baby. She tells her boyfriend that "we could have all this” and we could have everything". She thinks of all the possibilities and blessing this baby could bring into their lives. She also feels the need to please her boyfriend. She somehow gets reminded that all his affection and love towards her could be all hers if only she got the abortion.
Jig says, "Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe”. With the doubt of pregnancy not being an option anymore she feels that she has to kill the unborn baby due to the boyfriends beliefs that their lives would change drastically in a bad way. He feels that if she does not have the abortion his freedom will be taken from him. He feels the additional responsibility would limit his opportunities and his freedom. Jig says, "It’s ours," referring to everything the world has to offer, the man replies "no, it isn’t. And once they take it away, you can never get it back". He is telling her that once taken ‘it’—their freedom—away they will not be able to reclaim it. The boyfriend is afraid of change meanwhile Jig embraces it. With “the world giving everything it has to offer,” the best option would be to embrace it and not regret it with remorse.
In conclusion, the “Hills like White Elephants” is a story about