Jig

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” is a short story that tells the conversation of a young lady and older gentleman of the 1920’s. The two characters, Jig and an older American man are being portrayed from a third person point of view and their thoughts and feeling are sometimes questionable throughout the story. Both characters are at a train station in a valley in Spain drinking. The conversation is about a procedure that the young lady is skeptical about having done. Hemingway’s…

This is made clear in the story as Jig questions every statement the American makes. She not only has the inability to speak Spanish to the waiter serving their drinks, further showing dependability on the American, but she also has difficulty with expressing her ideas to him as well. Jig asks her lovers opinion on everything which seems to impact what she says and believes. They seem to dance around each other…

In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” by E. Hemingway, you are introduced to Jig and her boyfriend. It is assumed that jig is pregnant, and she is facing the decision of abortion. Jig is facing morality and has to make the decision to be morally correct, or morally incorrect. Her boyfriend is encouraging her to have the operation, but she is questioning whether she should or not. Abortion today is one of the most argued over and discussed topics. Decided whether it is moral or immoral…

seem happy and, full of life. These two descriptions are symbols of two different lifestyles for the American and Jig. The first symbolizes the couples future if they go along with the abortion. No matter how many times the American says things will go back to normal they wont, the thought of death will carry with them for the rest of their lives. But on the other side of the tracks Jig is picturing her life if she has the baby, as she uses Fields of Grain to symbolize fertility and the Ebro…

trees or offerings of shade. This deficiency of a full setting, which would include more trees, signifies no life. The two main characters, Jig and the American, are taking an abortion into consideration because of an accidental pregnancy. This absence of life presented by the barren setting suggests the pressure from the American on Jig to abort the fetus. Jig will be making an absence of a new life or new beginning in her and the American’s life if she choses to pursue and abortion. Being at a…

themselves and drinking beer together when the young woman, Jig, notices the hills in the distance. She looks to the man and says they remind her of white elephants, to which the man replies, “I’ve never seen one” making it seem as though he is less cultured than she, creating an intense argument between the two. The dialog in this story is very short and to the point. They continuously go back and forth, both speaking to each other in harsh tones. Jig says at one point, “I wanted to try this…

Elephants” represents that the American and Jig have different opinions about the potential abortion. Also, Jig observing the elements of the scenery helps her reach her final choice of the pregnancy. Firstly, the background of Barcelona and Madrid shows Jig two outcomes if she keeps her baby or if she has the abortion. For example, the author states about Barcelona further in the sentence, “The country was brown and dry” (229). Looking at Barcelona’s surroundings, Jig pictures would life would…

girl, Jig, is pregnant. She is described to be in a train station with who is supposed to be her boyfriend. She is faced with a dilemma of whether or not to have an abortion. At the train station, she discusses the issue with the guy. In the beginning of the story, Jig was still undecided on whether or not to go through with the abortion. She describes one side of the train station as having white long hills across the valley and having no shade and no trees. As the story progressed, I felt Jig…

undecided for obvious reasons, while the man doesn’t want the responsibility of a child. In this short story, the American man portrays a persuasive attitude to convince his girl, Jig, to have an abortion. Ernest Hemingway constructs a persuasive tone in the repetitive syntax of the American man. When the man talks to the girl, Jig, about the procedural part of an abortion he repeats variations of the phrase “perfectly simple” five times. “But I know it’s perfectly simple…I won’t worry about…

given easily to anyone during the period the story took place. Something ‘perfectly simple’ and ‘perfectly natural’ is keeping the child, plus Jig would have a better chance at…