A Comparison Of Love In A Rose For Emily And Hills Like White Elephants

Romance is something that everyone looks for. Some Americans will take it however they can get it. Someone can walk by and just talk about the word love and others will come to the person wanting to feel loved by someone. In “Hills like White Elephants” the main point is the one thing people who claim love don’t want to talk about. The girlfriend in the short story is pregnant and her boyfriend doesn’t want her to have the baby and asks for an abortion claiming that he will still love her and everything will go back to normal. In “A Rose for Emily” Emily is our main character, her fall was a general, who turned down all of the suitors who came and try to marry Emily. Emily ends up being alone and kills the man she claimed to love so much and sleeps next to his dead body till she dies. In both stories the main characters left lust for someone. The term ‘crazy in love’ is the spark of …show more content…
If someone doesn’t find love by the age of thirty when it is said that they will die alone. People often confuse love with lust. Many women find themselves pregnant with a child who is the result of lust not love. Since the child is the result of lust one of the parents or both will leave the child. In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” the boyfriend to the girl wants her to get an abortion, because he feels that he isn’t ready to be a father, and doesn’t love her. He had only felt lust for her. If he had truly loved his girlfriend Jig, he would’ve found a way to make things work. In the story they get into a couple different agreements and in order to get her boyfriend to stop asking about the abortion she reluctantly agreed to it; Jig’s boyfriend didn’t even care to ask how she felt about the abortion he forced it upon her. In the story you can clearly read that the relationship is on hard terms because the couple is only drinking not talking to each other; almost as if they are ignoring each