Jig

through life each day. An example of a decision is to have an abortion or to give life to a baby. This is the decision that Jig and the American are faced with. A decision can be influenced by a relative, significant other, friend, or even a place. Jig is unsure on what she wants to do but the American wants an abortion and views the baby as a mistake and keeps forcing it on Jig. In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” Jig’s decision occurs in a place that will make her consider her…

unstable stance towards their plans of abortion throughout the story. Hemingway showcases the different attitudes towards abortion with the American man and Jig throughout the dialogue about their conflicting perspectives towards their planned abortion and how it will affect their lives as a result. Hemingway reveals this conflict with Jig stating; "Everything tastes of liquorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for," (Hemmingway), she is not describing her desire for liquorice…

woman and a girl. With that being said, the authors have successfully showing how both Katherine Ames and Jig faced their partners’ selfishness, and how the two female protagonists were different in making decision based on their man. Although Katherine Ames and Jig had different characteristics, they both failed to communicate with the male protagonists efficiently. As well as Katherine Ames, Jig also had to handle her boyfriend’s selfishness. In “Hills Like White Elephants,” the American…

during the 1920s. An American man and a girl named Jig wait in a railroad junction for the train that will take them to Madrid, where the abortion will be preformed. As they wait, the man tries to bolster Jig’s decision upon the abortion; however, she is reconsidering because…

White Elephants” is a short dialogue story about a couple’s unavoidable shift in their relationship and the dilemma that they have no choice but to face. The story takes place at a train station in Spain, where the two main characters the American and Jig are sitting outside the station’s bar having drinks before their train arrives to take them to Madrid. While waiting for their train the couple tiptoe around the difficult situation they need to face about what to do about the unexpected…

Communication is key to having a healthy relationship. In the short stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, both relationships are in conflict. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Jig is having second thoughts about going to Madrid to have an “awfully simple operation (Pg. 2)” and the American is trying to do everything in his power to continue with the operation. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is diagnosed with…

Like White Elephants, a couple is sitting at a bar as they wait for the train to continue their journey. This couple consists of a male named “The American” and a female named Jig. Early in their conversation, they decide what drinks to have. They are sitting outside of a bar by a train station in Spain. While they are talking Jig remarks that the hills off in the distance look like elephants with white skin. The American quickly attempts to push this topic aside as though there was a larger…

through the lens of various characters in order to intrigue readers. In Ernest Hemingway's short story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” the author uses the abortion to show the two-sided effect it can have on people and society. Throughout the story, Jig faces several reasons why she thinks the abortion is necessary. She realizes that she has to make the most difficult decision of her life. However, there are many factors during the story that could potentially affect her overall decision. The…

Hemingway parallels and amplifies the conflict between Jig and her American. The symbolism of the white elephants further emphasizes the subject of the story. Hemingway did a great job in comparing the white elephants to an unborn baby. The symbolisms in the story are white elephants, the train station, and alcoholic beverages. The white elephants symbolize a consequence no one wants which refers to Jig’s unborn child. In the beginning of the story Jig daze off looking at the hills which were…

who are in an argument and are passing back and forth the control of the argument. The argument at hand is about the abortion the American wants Jig (the girl) to have. Jig is on the fence about the abortion while the American is pushing her to have the “simple operation” so that the relationship with go back to how it was before the pregnancy, while Jig is not exactly sure she wants the procedure she tries to say that they can be happy even with the baby at which point she tries to turn the…