By reading the fist sentence of “Hills like White Elephants”, you can see examples of modernism. Ernest Hemmingway used instances of love, drinking, and an abortion all throughout “Hills Like White Elephants”. All of these along with a setting at a rail road station, make up the entire story between the two American lovers. Even though love isn’t entirely an example of modernism, the way that hemming way uses it is. He uses love in a modern way by showing a drunken crazy type of love between two people. This is unlike most of the traditional connection between two people as demonstrated in older book. This story shows a deep love between two people, but the modernism in the story is an untrue and “quick relationship” type of love. One example
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Abortion has become a big part of politics in debates, and Supreme Court decisions. This is the main conflict throughout the story, which the couple argues about non-stop until Jig tells the man to stop talking before she screamed. The fact that he was bothering her so much about t tells the reader that there could have been a relationship problem between the couple earlier on before the story. This could also mean that the girl was so drunk at this time, so she was starting to get a headache from all of the American man’s fussing about her decision. She could have also been irritated about the pressure he was putting on her to make the decision n a short period of time. He pushed her, yet acted like it was all up to her. This showed a lot about his character. For being such lovers, the American man and jig had little to nothing about their character in common. The man was pushy, yet acted as if he was so in love with jig, and acted like he didn’t care if she had the abortion like he wanted it. Jig on the other hand, was more laid back. She wanted time to think about her options instead of making a rash decision. In my opinion about the setting is that it fits the story absolutely perfectly. It is at a railroad and on the railroad tracks. This is more of a rushed place, which influences a rushed kind of attitude, which is what fits the
Abortion has become a big part of politics in debates, and Supreme Court decisions. This is the main conflict throughout the story, which the couple argues about non-stop until Jig tells the man to stop talking before she screamed. The fact that he was bothering her so much about t tells the reader that there could have been a relationship problem between the couple earlier on before the story. This could also mean that the girl was so drunk at this time, so she was starting to get a headache from all of the American man’s fussing about her decision. She could have also been irritated about the pressure he was putting on her to make the decision n a short period of time. He pushed her, yet acted like it was all up to her. This showed a lot about his character. For being such lovers, the American man and jig had little to nothing about their character in common. The man was pushy, yet acted as if he was so in love with jig, and acted like he didn’t care if she had the abortion like he wanted it. Jig on the other hand, was more laid back. She wanted time to think about her options instead of making a rash decision. In my opinion about the setting is that it fits the story absolutely perfectly. It is at a railroad and on the railroad tracks. This is more of a rushed place, which influences a rushed kind of attitude, which is what fits the