Jig

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, being the first son and second child to Clarence and Grace Hemingway. His mother hoped that he would foster an interest for music, but he liked the outdoors much more, like his father. In high school, he excelled academically as well as athletically. After high school, he was not interested in going to college, and wanted a writing career. He started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City, at the young age of seventeen…

mentioned, but it is implied. The story is short and starts with a woman named Jig. The other character is a man to represent man in America. The Relationship between the two is awkward and not definitive. The story represents a relationship. she is not sure whether to keep the child or have the abortion. And the man wants her to have the abortion. They both want to travel place to place, but he doesn’t want the responsibilities. Jig on the other side wants to have the child and still travel.…

The short story, Hills like White Elephants, is essentially a conversation between a woman (Jig) and a man (unnamed, but referred to as The American) at a train station. Although this story is a conversation, neither of them truly communicate with each other, and they do not seem to care about the point of view of one another. The American is exasperatingly trying to convince the girl to have an operation. The nature of this operation is never clearly stated, but it is assumed to be an abortion.…

express what he feels. Afterwards, the black man realizes just how selfcentered she is, he decides to leave her and move on with his life. In the short story “The Hills like White Elephants”, it is also between a man who is the American and a woman named Jig in a bar with a bartender who only…

convince the women named Jig to go through with the abortion. This is done through the use of character, seeing how he acts in specific situations and how he interacts with Jig. The American man says, “If you don’t want to you don’t have to” several times throughout the story, trying to make her feel comfortable with a decision she does not want to make (Hemmingway). Several of his actions show the reader what he truly desires out of this conversation. His only goal is to convince Jig to…

is a very disturbing story by Ernest Hemingway about two characters that are arguing at a train station. I read this story several times and it pissed me off more, the more times I read it. The two characters are an American man and a lady known as Jig. The conflict in the story is about an operation that the man wants her to have and that the girl does not want performed. I think this is the best example of propaganda ever written to convince educated people that there is absolutely nothing…

Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, a renowned piece of literature, attracts the attention of many literary scholars. In this short story, a couple consisting of Jig, and the American, must decide whether or not to have an abortion. When first read, this story appears to have little depth and what the characters discuss is unclear. However after evaluation, it becomes clear that the story has much depth and is no longer about abortion but rather the emotions surrounding the situation…

across the valley of the Ebro” (p 294). The hills were “long and white” (p 294), unlike the countryside that is “brown and dry” (p 295). White symbolizes hope, light, and rebirth; while brown symbolizes death and decay. The mountains represent how Jig sees the prospect of deciding to keep the child. They are a future that is different from…

In the “hills like White Elephant” is identified as third-person narrator. The narrator gave the readers very little information on the operation or what was going on exactly. The author didn’t give us a lot of information about what exactly the characters were thinking but of what they say. Although the author doesn’t give the readers to much information he does provide us with the scenery (Spain) and described the weather as blazing hot. The narrator describes the beginning of the story at a…

the reader know the two characters are talking about an operation and the man or American makes this operation sound overly simple, as if the woman or jig can just walk in and out like getting a shot but by telling by Jigs emotions in the story it’s not that simple and this in evident when the American says “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig it’s not really an operation at all” (Hemingway, 592). This shows how the American just demeans the seriousness of this operation not in any way…