Going through life everyone has to make difficult decisions. Some decisions more difficult than others but generally they all cause pain and suffering. In the reading Hills like
White Elephants written by Ernest Hemingway there are many hidden meanings that don’t automatically jump out and grab the reader’s attention. In this story, a couple has to make a difficult decision to terminate their pregnancy. They arrive at the train station and start a conversation. Jig is the woman in the story who states “They look like white elephants” referring to the hills outside of the window she’s looking out of. The conversation quickly turns sour beginning a lover’s quarrel.
In Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants he is having this couple almost arguing to make a …show more content…
It is obvious that Jig is against the operation but her partner is clearly pushing her and trying to convince her that it will make them stronger as a couple.
Eventually Jig gives in to his words and agrees to the operation saying to him “Then I’ll do it.
Because I don’t care about me.” The literary criticism in this story is showing the control that men had over women.
Hills like White Elephants was written in third person. When I first read this story my initial implications were that there was an American man, and a Spanish woman in a train station. They were romantically involved. The woman is worried about an operation and what it will do to their relationship. She seeks his approval in most of her statements. The man thinks that the operation is a good idea and is worried that she will make the decision that he doesn’t want. She eventually tells him what he wants to hear resulting in an even deeper void between them even telling him that she doesn’t care about her and that she only cares for him.
The way that this story recognizes women and their roles in society is very incorrect.
Even back then women contributed to the war movements and worked in factories and outside
White Elephants written by Ernest Hemingway there are many hidden meanings that don’t automatically jump out and grab the reader’s attention. In this story, a couple has to make a difficult decision to terminate their pregnancy. They arrive at the train station and start a conversation. Jig is the woman in the story who states “They look like white elephants” referring to the hills outside of the window she’s looking out of. The conversation quickly turns sour beginning a lover’s quarrel.
In Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants he is having this couple almost arguing to make a …show more content…
It is obvious that Jig is against the operation but her partner is clearly pushing her and trying to convince her that it will make them stronger as a couple.
Eventually Jig gives in to his words and agrees to the operation saying to him “Then I’ll do it.
Because I don’t care about me.” The literary criticism in this story is showing the control that men had over women.
Hills like White Elephants was written in third person. When I first read this story my initial implications were that there was an American man, and a Spanish woman in a train station. They were romantically involved. The woman is worried about an operation and what it will do to their relationship. She seeks his approval in most of her statements. The man thinks that the operation is a good idea and is worried that she will make the decision that he doesn’t want. She eventually tells him what he wants to hear resulting in an even deeper void between them even telling him that she doesn’t care about her and that she only cares for him.
The way that this story recognizes women and their roles in society is very incorrect.
Even back then women contributed to the war movements and worked in factories and outside