Writers and Artists have something in common, they both paint the pictures and have a meaning in their work. People interpret their work differently and come up with similar results. The setting in the story of Hills Like White Elephants can be interpreted many different ways expressing the meaning of Hemingway thoughts about the subject of abortion and the issues the characters had can be reach in different point of views.
In the story of Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, it was a time where the man role is still dominant over woman. In the U.S. 19th Amendment made woman right to vote and started the beginnings of women joining the labor force. Three years before the Greatest Depression in history. Also it was time that abortions were common and illegal. Establishment were rumored and told by person to person. You couldn’t talk about …show more content…
The procedure was deadly most common bleeding to death and infection. They did not sedate the patient during the procedure and the infection the patient got, was no treatment of penicillin until the discovery in World War II. At that time women didn’t know what drinking alcohol could do harm to a pregnancy. Spain is majority Catholic. Hemingway must have spent time in Spain and since he drank, his inspiration must of came one day sitting by the bar observing a couple like in the story. The way he wrote the story reads like he was listening to a conversation.
The site where Hemingway chose, has several meanings of its own that can be interpreted. The first line of the story, "The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white" (475), can be interpreted as the length of the belly of the pregnancy and the worry of the characters is carries in mind, the word Ebro
In the story of Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, it was a time where the man role is still dominant over woman. In the U.S. 19th Amendment made woman right to vote and started the beginnings of women joining the labor force. Three years before the Greatest Depression in history. Also it was time that abortions were common and illegal. Establishment were rumored and told by person to person. You couldn’t talk about …show more content…
The procedure was deadly most common bleeding to death and infection. They did not sedate the patient during the procedure and the infection the patient got, was no treatment of penicillin until the discovery in World War II. At that time women didn’t know what drinking alcohol could do harm to a pregnancy. Spain is majority Catholic. Hemingway must have spent time in Spain and since he drank, his inspiration must of came one day sitting by the bar observing a couple like in the story. The way he wrote the story reads like he was listening to a conversation.
The site where Hemingway chose, has several meanings of its own that can be interpreted. The first line of the story, "The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white" (475), can be interpreted as the length of the belly of the pregnancy and the worry of the characters is carries in mind, the word Ebro