Becoming a mother is hard in any day or age, especially when the father is unsure he wants his own child. It is hard in the sense that it is an occupation without days off, it is costly, both in time and money, and above all it marks the point in one’s life where they are incapable of putting themselves first from here on out. With abortion being such a controversial topic, one is shunned either way for their decision. Some are angry for a mother to keep her baby if the baby’s life is not fully taken care of, others are petrified when a woman ends the life of an unborn child even though the mother is incapable of caring for the child. In addition to the obviously hard decision women will have to make and the judgement of others, men in today’s
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The couple is placed in a train station with a distant landscape of beautiful hills to talk through their options for this incident. The hills seem peaceful, hopeful, and unscathed in every way, for they symbolize an escape for their growingly complicated lives. Because the couple is struggling to determine whether or not to keep the baby, they find themselves having relationship troubles in addition to the responsibility that comes with growing up. For …show more content…
The woman is concerned that if she does have the child, she will be alone and without support, which is shown when she asks the man “if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me?” (Hemingway 477). Even in today’s era, women are concerned they will not be able to be loved again nor happy if they do not conform to their man’s wishes. Similarly, at the beginning of the story the man tells the waitress “‘dos cervezas’” (two beers) without asking the woman what she had wanted, but rather passively aggressively telling her what she will drink and make the conversation easier on him through taking care of her nerves (Hemingway 475). Many women feel as if they do not have a say in what they do, especially in abusive relationships, but rather think that this is what they deserve and that it is not something worth, nor capable of
The couple is placed in a train station with a distant landscape of beautiful hills to talk through their options for this incident. The hills seem peaceful, hopeful, and unscathed in every way, for they symbolize an escape for their growingly complicated lives. Because the couple is struggling to determine whether or not to keep the baby, they find themselves having relationship troubles in addition to the responsibility that comes with growing up. For …show more content…
The woman is concerned that if she does have the child, she will be alone and without support, which is shown when she asks the man “if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me?” (Hemingway 477). Even in today’s era, women are concerned they will not be able to be loved again nor happy if they do not conform to their man’s wishes. Similarly, at the beginning of the story the man tells the waitress “‘dos cervezas’” (two beers) without asking the woman what she had wanted, but rather passively aggressively telling her what she will drink and make the conversation easier on him through taking care of her nerves (Hemingway 475). Many women feel as if they do not have a say in what they do, especially in abusive relationships, but rather think that this is what they deserve and that it is not something worth, nor capable of