Jig

As they continue to sit drinking the man says – “Well, Let’s try and have a fine time” (Hemingway, 116) to which Jig replies with a sarcastic comment about the white skin of the elephants/hills being bright. Her partner agrees, as though to keep the conversation from becoming too negative, leading to her response, “I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do…

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the characters, Hemingway puts the reader in the role of eavesdropper to the couple’s conversation. The setting is in the 1920’s at a train station. The main character, Jig, only has two options for her situation, marriage or adoption because being a single mother is unorthodox. Jig’s partner, the American, tries to convince Jig to get an unwanted abortion. Revealing the selfishness of the American, and revealing Jig’s reflectiveness. Her statements referring to the hills…

Flaws are what define a character’s personality. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” character flaws are expanded upon to create conflict between the two characters, Jig and the American. The American and Jig, most commonly referred to as the girl, differ on how they handle conflict created by their individual flaws. The girl’s flaws are that she avoids her problems and is subordinate which is contrasted by the American’s flaws of manipulation and being guilty of the fallacious…

marvel at his use of symbolism to help the patient reader understand more about his stories. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, symbols play a large role in helping the reader understand the relationship and decision being made between the American and Jig. The curtain made of beads is symbolic of the couple’s attitudes toward each other and toward the abortion. It acts as a cover that keeps the actual topic the characters must discuss covered up. For the first part of the stop at the station,…

made her happy: “I said the mountain looked like white elephants. Wasn’t bright?...They are lovely hills…but if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it?” (31-32, 36, 60-61). From the view of Jig , the readers realize the hill as the white elephants is a symbol of the unborn child in her. If people skim the story , they think that the woman said about the hill just the normal thing she saw. However, linked with the conversation about an…

couple believes that when Jig goes through with the abortion the relationship will automatically fall back to the blissful state it was before the obstruction of the baby come along. Hemingway said, “And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me” (361). The girl is willing to go through with abortion, believing that it will save her relationship. Through the lens of “The Storm” we get to see that this is not just a sacrifice that Jig is making, it is a huge…

but the bitter taste of the consequences of pregnancy. At the conclusion of this short prose the complicated decision is emphasized by the symbolic lack of words in Jig’s simple statement of “I am fine.” This statement leads the readers to believe Jig has made a decision but maintains the vagueness by never letting the readers know the…

In the story "Hills Like White Elephants" I feel as though the American treats Jig like he loves her but really don’t and I feel as though it is the same thing with the story "The Girl with Bangs” how the narrator treats Charlotte. The reason I say this is because in the story "Hills Like White Elephants" The American clearly see that Jig wanted to have the baby. He sees that she wanted them to be a family and be “okay”. But yet he makes it seem as though she has the choice to choose to keep…

of his pieces of writing and come up with a hundred different ideas on what he is writing about. In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway creates a narrative piece. It is a dialog between an American man and a woman named Jig. The two of them are sitting at a train station in Spain; waiting for a train to go to Madrid. The conversation that they are having between each other is quite vague, but it is understood that whatever they are talking about is heavy on both of…