Stefanie A. Thomas Professor Judith Angona English 152 9 October 2012 Character Comparison – Two Repressed Women Both “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” center around two women who are repressed by their lives’ circumstances. However‚ outside of their feelings‚ their situations could not be more different. Miss Emily Grierson is trapped in a life of solitude‚ despondency‚ and desperation. The girl‚ or “Jig”‚ is equally as desperate‚
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In the stories of David Foster Wallace’s “Good People” and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”. Despite having a similar problem of abortion in the stories the problems. However‚ I believe‚ are treated differently in opinions and aspects that changes how the stories’ end and explains how the male and female characters feel. In the story of “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ the girl referred to the American as “Jig” seems to be indecisive in proceeding with her operation. She avoids conversations
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Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants‚" tells the story of an American man and a girl who is named Jig. They are both sitting outside of a train station in Spain looking across a valley while drinking beer. In “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Hemingway discusses the landscape before them‚ the valley of the Ebro River‚ that has long white hills. As the American and the girl begin to have a conversation‚ the girl remarks on the Ebro River of the way it looks. After a while the American asked
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big boned and heavier‚ also having trouble losing weight. There are women with these problems as well. The different body parts that a man and woman have is perhaps the biggest difference between the two genders and is often at the center of argument or debate between the genders. While those are major differences between the genders‚ the biggest differences is how our minds work and react to different situations in our lives. All those differences between genders also get added on by the diverse
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with nicknames because we share a more formal and professional relationship with them. With loved ones however‚ shortened names represent a mutual fondness. Nonetheless‚ the reverse can be applied in this situation also. For instance‚ in Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ the male protagonist refers to the female as “Jig”. This nickname does not emanate any sort of sweetness‚ and can almost be looked at contemptuously. The name “Jig” allows the reader to further comprehend the inner
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Throughout the short stories‚ many gender issues are heavily active in the text. They all seem to share the same characteristics in each plot of the stories “The Use of Force”‚ “Hills like White Elephants”‚ and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Each story outlines the male character as the “dominant leader” overpowering over a woman. In our society‚ the male is seen as the protector over his family and life. He is responsible for taking care of things and fighting which might include becoming a dominant character
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In the search for hope for the protagonists of “The Sun Also Rises” Is there any hope for the Lost Generation? Do the title of the novel and the seemingly hopeful epigraph indicate that the Lost Generation still have the possibility to regain any of the values they have lost during the WW1? The epigraph to “The Sun Also Rises” contains a quote from Gertrude Stein‚ saying: “You are all a lost generation”. This proclamation is juxtaposed with the passage from
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Hills Like White Elephants In the story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway‚ the author uses the luggage to symbolize the hard decision that the American and Jig face in regards to having the abortion. The couple faces a very difficult decision about this baby because they are not willing to give up their immature life style. The luggage symbolizes that Jig and the American are still very ambitious to travel around the world and if they were to keep the baby‚ their ambition would come
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Escaping the Wasteland The fishing trip within Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises provides a pilgrimage of rejuvenation to the novel’s participating characters‚ Jake Barnes and Bill Gorton. Escaping the wasteland that is Paris‚ the two men "shove off‚" (Hemingway‚ VIII)‚ to Burguete‚ Spain‚ where they fish for trout on the Irati River. The protagonist and narrator of the novel‚ Jake was left impotent from an injury incurred while serving with the Italian Front in World War 1. His inability
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style likened to an iceberg. Like an iceberg that is 1/8 above water and 7/8 below the surface‚ Hemingway embedded the deeper meanings in his works through the silent or unaddressed issues. He stated that “the dignity of an iceberg is due to 1/8 of it being above water” and that the most dangerous and important 7/8‚ the part that sinks ships‚ lies below the surface. (“Art of Fiction”) (Onderdonk 75). In using Hemingway’s iceberg theory to examine his work The Sun Also Rises as well as James Baldwin’s
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