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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that mainly refers to abortion. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ expressed a feminist movement focusing around this issue that was not very common at this time. Through the character’s development and ability to come to their own decisions despite the men’s constant
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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 Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” he shows the major difference between the two which is a woman’s pregnancy and the difference in reactions between a man and a woman what that occurs. While the man in the story seems to want the woman to have the operation which is an
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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 complexities of such
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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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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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is influencing her to have an abortion. Lane and the American guy in the story of “Hills like White Elephants” are the same. For men they think it is easy for a woman to do the abortion‚ but they don’t know how it will impact or affect their behavior and self-esteem afterwards. The woman who even think or act to do an abortion is a big sin (it is also depends on the situation). The girl in “Hills like White Elephants” and Sherri they are going through a tough
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	In "Hills Like White Elephants" Ernest Hemingway relies on symbolism to convey the theme of abortion. The symbolic material objects‚ as well as the strong symbolic characters‚ aid the reader’s understanding of the underlying theme. 	The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer‚ the good and bad hillsides‚ and a railroad station between two tracks. The beer represents the couple’s‚ "the American" and "the girl’s"‚ usual routine activity
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the story “Hills Like White Elephants” there are two main characters the American and Jig. The story takes place at a train station in 1927 in Spain. Jig is a young girl dealing with a woman’s choice. Although the word abortion is never used in the story‚ the reader is lead to that conclusion through the use of symbolism. There are many different ways in the story that are symbolically used to describe the abortion. For example‚ while drinking beer‚ Jig looks off at the line of hills and says. “They
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