Jig

“Hills like White Elephant” by Ernest Hemingway focuses on the typical behavior between the American man and the girl whom is referred as Jig. Both characters spent time talking, consuming beer, and anticipating their train to arrive. At first their conversation was not crucial until both couple were debating whether the girl should get an operation done or not. The American convinced the girl to get the operation done and that everything would turn out to be fine. In the end, the American took…

Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway follows an American couple. The American man and his girlfriend Jig are on vacation. They sit waiting at a train station in Spain next to the Ebro valley. The couple drink together and talk about the hills which “look like white elephants” (Hemingway). As the conversation goes on the American man brings up an operation which Jig was to undergo. The couple then argues whether or not Jig should get the operation. This story is mostly dialogue and told from a dramatic…

White Elephants” Jigs the American girl is more mature because she doesn't have peer pressure persuading her. The American man and Jigs are expecting, they are having a veryheated discussion on what she should do. The man wants Jigs to get abortion, so Jigs says she'll do it if it makes the man happy. Jigs just wants their relationship to go back the way it was before. The unborn child is the only thing that made both the man and Jigs unhappy. After awhile Jigs started to really…

American, and the woman character, referred to as Jig, are sitting at the train station’s bar pondering what to drink. Reading further into the story the conversation evolves into an ambiguous exchange of word highlighted by hollow…

Jig is faced with this decision because her boyfriend simply isn’t ready. Since her boyfriend is not ready for a real relationship and life together she is putting aside morality to make him happy. In this short story I believe that jigs boyfriend is complicating the decision of jig having the operation. Really if we look at the bigger picture than you will easily see that if jigs boyfriend would quit pushing his input in so demandingly then jig might be able to sit back and realize what she…

the fact that the woman, Jig, should have the operation. Throughout the conversation, Jig asks if they will be happy afterwards and go back to how they were before. Jig isn’t happy with the relationship and in the end, decides to break it off with the man. The story starts with the couple waiting for a train at a train station. The American orders two beers, big beers. Throughout the whole story, alcohol is involved between the two. The couple orders multiple drinks and Jig says that “That’s…

elements important to the story and symbols, as well as a major theme, feminism. A man and a woman, mentioned as Jig later in the story (Hemingway 100), are seated outside of a building waiting on the train to come in a Spanish town (Hemingway 99). The setting plays a crucial role in the story. The two are having a serious conversation, but are in a neutral, every-day setting. Jig and her significant other are seated across from one another drinking in a casual atmosphere, while waiting on the…

named Jig is one of amusement. It is just an interesting, lighthearted banter exchange between two individuals over drinks, passing the time until the train arrives. I was roughly half way through my initial reading when I slowed down to truly absorb the words. I took me a moment to realize the situation playing out between this man and women is actually quite serious. My original assessment of amusement suddenly morphed into one of heartbreak and loss. Not for the American, but for Jig…

affects them. . As the story progresses, it is implied that Jig is pregnant and the American is wanting Jig to receive an abortion to be rid of the child so it can be just the two of them. The stereotypes portrayed in this short story not only…

"cross-roads" about an operation. This "operation" is soon to be perceived as a abortion. The American, (Jig's boyfriend) is trying to inveigle Jig to have the operation, while Jig is ambivalent. The American is determined to convince Jig to go through with the abortion. The American is showing lack of understanding and is not paying attention to what Jig has to say about the operation. He is very one-sided and expects her to do what he wants her to do. Throughout this short story it is seen…