Leaning Towards the Stronger Force Life is constructed by the decisions individuals uphold to. Decisions and choices will always exist; however, the decisions that individuals choose to embrace when presented with obstacles will determine their life. In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway reveals the importance of decision-making. This drama exposes a significant decision about an abortion that a girl is having a difficult time to reaffirm during the 1920s. An American man and a girl named Jig wait in a railroad junction for the train that will take them to Madrid, where the abortion will be preformed. As they wait, the man tries to bolster Jig’s decision upon the abortion; however, she is reconsidering because
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The man’s irresponsibility and selfishness influence the decisions that he imposes Jig to make. The reader discovers the man’s characteristics indirectly by the way he speaks to Jig. For instance, the American man is a man who does not want to settle down just yet since he enjoys living life without commitments, but Jig’s pregnancy has become an obstacle. He wants Jig to have an abortion because the baby is “the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy”(222). The pregnancy is a burden for the man because it makes him unhappy and prevents Jig and him to continue the reckless life they have been living, a life without responsibilities. Although the Jig’s pregnancy makes him unhappy, his selfishness blinds him from realizing that Jig wants to keep it instead he insists that the abortion is a just “simple operation. The abortion being a “simple operation” is not the problem, but that he does not take into consideration what Jig feels therefore he justifies his decision by telling Jig that he knows many people who have done it before and guarantees that after it their lives will the
The man’s irresponsibility and selfishness influence the decisions that he imposes Jig to make. The reader discovers the man’s characteristics indirectly by the way he speaks to Jig. For instance, the American man is a man who does not want to settle down just yet since he enjoys living life without commitments, but Jig’s pregnancy has become an obstacle. He wants Jig to have an abortion because the baby is “the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy”(222). The pregnancy is a burden for the man because it makes him unhappy and prevents Jig and him to continue the reckless life they have been living, a life without responsibilities. Although the Jig’s pregnancy makes him unhappy, his selfishness blinds him from realizing that Jig wants to keep it instead he insists that the abortion is a just “simple operation. The abortion being a “simple operation” is not the problem, but that he does not take into consideration what Jig feels therefore he justifies his decision by telling Jig that he knows many people who have done it before and guarantees that after it their lives will the