Jig The Woman

The author shows us that a woman's voice isn't heard and the woman couldn’t do anything but try to please the man. The author shows this with the mood and dialogue between the man and Jig.

The girl , Jig, is portrayed as someone that’s powerless and can’t speak up for herself. When Jig mentioned the hills looking like white elephants the guy mentioned “I’ve never seen one” and since the girl agreed with him he rudely replies “ Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything”. The guy probably likes to have the upper hand and doesn’t like to be corrected by a woman. The woman didn’t say anything to defend herself after the guy treated her like if she was an object with no voice or power. By the way he acted towards the woman’s comment we can tell that he likes to be the boss of the relationship. As the story went on he didn’t even apologize to Jig for being so ruthless. For this reason, we can tell that women were thought to be less than the men. The girl didn’t know what else to say to try to make the man happy so she just decided to say “ They don’t really look like
In today’s world it isn’t as bad as before but it still happens in many countries throughout the world today. Jig is a woman that is not being treated as a woman should be treated meaning she is not given a voice of her own and therefore she feels powerless and that causes her to only do things that her man wants her to do with out her opinion. She needs to value and love herself in order for a man to respect her because she will know her own value and won’t let a man get her down to a lower self esteem because she will know her own value. She feels empty and doesn’t think anyone would listen to her so she just puts a mask on and acts like if everything in her life was normal even though her life isn’t normal because she has a man that is ruthless to her and doesn’t value her as an actual