After reading Hills Like White Elephants to be honest I was greatly confused. Looking up literary commentary I found a wide stretch of articles from abortion to gender arguments. To me while there is plenty of evidence for both and pages of arguments to draw from I cannot do it.
Reading over the paper again three or four times I have come to a sad conclusion. While I see what many others have seen, I cannot look at it so factually. This work can be applied in such a far greater lens than abortion or the views of men and women towards each other. I see why this is about abortion, from the simple operation to how Jig asks if they both really will be happy after its complete. I see that there is a great deal to be said about how the interactions …show more content…
Even if Hemmingway wrote that it is nothing more than an abortion commentary I believe it holds more water elsewhere in life.
Simply put after reading it many times I see it as the perfect story for the problems of love. It shows one simpler minded character who cares and a mature character who wants to escape the confounding fear. Both are conversing over a mutual problem affecting their lives.
They are trying to decide the best way to solve it. The man written about is dead set in his opinion and what the outcome will bring. He knows what he wants and that is this quick operation giving way to a fast and easy return to happiness. That the problem currently faced is a
Sledge 2 simple crack in an otherwise perfect road. And with a small quick step the crack will be passed and travel down the perfect road can continue. This shown by him constantly repeating how easy it will be and how everyone who does it is so happy afterwards. While Jig is the one without rose colored glasses. This problem isn’t something solved in a snap. If it is solved in such a way Jig questions if things really will continue on as they have. Jig even brings up what their past has been. Nothing more than drinking and traveling. This admission acts as a question of whether …show more content…
The barren hills of white elephants represent the failure of a choice. Where one or both of those involved doesn’t get what they desire or in the way it was desired. Using the crime metaphor again, one or both of them being caught by police. While the fertile lands and trees is the decision baring the sought after goal. The happiness they both can share in a way both will be happy. Again using crime, they both got away scot free. The train station to others was the current point of the argument. I don’t believe it to be true because the train is going to Madrid no matter the choice made. No matter how the argument goes that point doesn’t change. And the train wont suddenly change directions. The train station better represents time itself. That the choice cannot be mulled over forever. Instead of being a point in the argument, it instead is a point in time where the argument is being held. Where the outcome of which can be seen to either side of the train station. In the end the two lovers must make up their mind and hope it leads them to fertile fields. No matter what they will board the train at the point and no
Reading over the paper again three or four times I have come to a sad conclusion. While I see what many others have seen, I cannot look at it so factually. This work can be applied in such a far greater lens than abortion or the views of men and women towards each other. I see why this is about abortion, from the simple operation to how Jig asks if they both really will be happy after its complete. I see that there is a great deal to be said about how the interactions …show more content…
Even if Hemmingway wrote that it is nothing more than an abortion commentary I believe it holds more water elsewhere in life.
Simply put after reading it many times I see it as the perfect story for the problems of love. It shows one simpler minded character who cares and a mature character who wants to escape the confounding fear. Both are conversing over a mutual problem affecting their lives.
They are trying to decide the best way to solve it. The man written about is dead set in his opinion and what the outcome will bring. He knows what he wants and that is this quick operation giving way to a fast and easy return to happiness. That the problem currently faced is a
Sledge 2 simple crack in an otherwise perfect road. And with a small quick step the crack will be passed and travel down the perfect road can continue. This shown by him constantly repeating how easy it will be and how everyone who does it is so happy afterwards. While Jig is the one without rose colored glasses. This problem isn’t something solved in a snap. If it is solved in such a way Jig questions if things really will continue on as they have. Jig even brings up what their past has been. Nothing more than drinking and traveling. This admission acts as a question of whether …show more content…
The barren hills of white elephants represent the failure of a choice. Where one or both of those involved doesn’t get what they desire or in the way it was desired. Using the crime metaphor again, one or both of them being caught by police. While the fertile lands and trees is the decision baring the sought after goal. The happiness they both can share in a way both will be happy. Again using crime, they both got away scot free. The train station to others was the current point of the argument. I don’t believe it to be true because the train is going to Madrid no matter the choice made. No matter how the argument goes that point doesn’t change. And the train wont suddenly change directions. The train station better represents time itself. That the choice cannot be mulled over forever. Instead of being a point in the argument, it instead is a point in time where the argument is being held. Where the outcome of which can be seen to either side of the train station. In the end the two lovers must make up their mind and hope it leads them to fertile fields. No matter what they will board the train at the point and no