Jig

conversation. Jig is the woman in the story who states “They look like white elephants” referring to the hills outside of the window she’s looking out of. The conversation quickly turns sour beginning a lover’s quarrel. In Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants he is having this couple almost arguing to make a…

they are similar in that they both include the use of a train as a symbol and in their focus of the women in the relationships introduced. The trains in both stories are the most significant similarity because they represent the different futures that Jig and Mrs. Mallard could have. While Hemmingway leaves his short story with an open ending regarding Jig’s future, Chopin reveals the outcome of Mrs. Mallard’s future. Hemmingway’s short story takes place at a train station. The train station is…

Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is primarily a conversation between the American man and his girlfriend, Jig. The story’s setting takes place in a train station surrounded by hills, fields, and trees in a valley in Spain. The story starts off with the two sitting at a table outside the station, waiting for a train to Madrid. Throughout the story, the two order drinks to pass the time. Hemingway’s story is filled with metaphors, which explain the context of his story. Drinking allows the…

Millions of stories exist where you simply have to guess what will happen after the end of the story. The writer decided to not include the last moments and leaves it up to us, as the reader, to finish his tale. One of these open ended literature pieces is Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants. The story depicts a couple waiting for the train at a station, to kill time they decide to have a few drinks and as the reader we get to follow their conversation. Although it is mentioned nowhere…

Hills Like White Elephants According to the articles, Jig and the man was having argument whether she should have an abortion. The first thing to know is that everyone experiences abortion differently “The termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation — compare miscarriage; induced expulsion of a human fetus.” More than 11% of all…

watching closely. Describing the other people to be “waiting reasonably” is indicative that someone is not waiting reasonably (Hemingway). The man perceives the people waiting for the train as realistic and sensible in contrast to his perception of Jig. The man regards Jig’s behavior as irrational. As an objective author,…

Male Motives for Dominant Control in Hemingway and Gilman In both the “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, there is an institution of a domineering patriarchal system that is ruling over the women of both stories through their male partners. The male characters in both stories are evidently using their dominance to manipulate the women in way that benefits them only. Using evidence from critic reviews and the text of the…

of separation between the reader and character. We can’t emotionally connect with the characters therefore, it makes it harder to understand the characters reasons as to why they did something. An example in the story is we do not personally know Jig, therefore we don’t know why or why not she accepts abortion as a valid answer, we can only infer her view. The story leaves the reader with questions and they decide the outcome. This separation between the reader and characters has a positive…

Jig describes the hills across the Ebro as looking like a white elephant. A white elephant is usually a symbol representing something that is unwanted or a burden. In the eyes of the man, the baby Jig is carrying is the white elephant. Interestingly, after the abortion is indirectly brought up, Jig takes back the comment: “‘They’re lovely hills,’ she said. ‘They don’t really look like white elephants’” (Hemingway 592). By retracting this statement, Jig is indicating that maybe…

bring up the much more sensitive topic of an abortion. Although “they look like white elephants” seems like such a plain statement, it is the beginning of a very symbolic metaphor that compares the hills to their unborn child. Later on in the story, Jig pulls back her original statement, saying that “they don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees” (592). Continuing the metaphor from the earlier conversation, we can derive that this is her…