Compare and Contrast to "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin and "Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway
To some people a baby can be the best thing that ever happened to them, but then there are others who have decisions to make. They will go through an important stage in any relationship, the make it or break it stage. The two stories that I will be analyzing will be “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin and “Hills like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway. In both stories the characters found out how babies can be a deciding factor in a relationship, and that’s what I will be focusing on.
In “Desiree’s Baby” the morale of the story is “we often get into trouble when we assume” (Mayer, Gary H.). The husband even though he claimed to have loved his wife rejected her in a time of need, the result of it he ends up losing his wife and son. When the husband found out that everything he knew about his wife was a lie, he forgot about everything he said and just abandoned his family, in the text it said, “He could give her one of the oldest and proudest names in Louisiana” (Paragraph 4, line 4). Armand let judgment deter him from what’s really important which is even if he and Desiree did not last he should still be there for his child. Even though “Desiree’s Baby” dealt with race I look at it as a deciding moment in a relationship, especially if the couple is married to know that you are going to stay together. The baby wasn’t the reason why the couple didn’t make it but the baby was the start of why they didn’t work.
In “Hills like White Elephants” it shows the struggle one couple faced with deciding whether or not they wanted to tackle parenthood. The couple, “the American” and “the girl” both are unsure of their fate. The American just wants to walk away and the girl just wants to make him happy, “American male protagonist dominates the meeker, weaker-sexed jig of her femaleness” (Busch, Frederick; 234). There are lots of people that the man still has the bigger role in the relationship, but in those relationships comes a lot of animosity to the companion later. In one
In “Desiree’s Baby” the morale of the story is “we often get into trouble when we assume” (Mayer, Gary H.). The husband even though he claimed to have loved his wife rejected her in a time of need, the result of it he ends up losing his wife and son. When the husband found out that everything he knew about his wife was a lie, he forgot about everything he said and just abandoned his family, in the text it said, “He could give her one of the oldest and proudest names in Louisiana” (Paragraph 4, line 4). Armand let judgment deter him from what’s really important which is even if he and Desiree did not last he should still be there for his child. Even though “Desiree’s Baby” dealt with race I look at it as a deciding moment in a relationship, especially if the couple is married to know that you are going to stay together. The baby wasn’t the reason why the couple didn’t make it but the baby was the start of why they didn’t work.
In “Hills like White Elephants” it shows the struggle one couple faced with deciding whether or not they wanted to tackle parenthood. The couple, “the American” and “the girl” both are unsure of their fate. The American just wants to walk away and the girl just wants to make him happy, “American male protagonist dominates the meeker, weaker-sexed jig of her femaleness” (Busch, Frederick; 234). There are lots of people that the man still has the bigger role in the relationship, but in those relationships comes a lot of animosity to the companion later. In one
Bibliography: Busch, Frederick. “On Hills Like White Elephants.” Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Ed. R. V. Cassill et al. 6th ed. New York: Norton, 2000. 761–62. Mayer, Gary H. “A Matter of Behavior a Semantic Analysis of Five Kate Chopin Stories.” January 2010. 94-100 Rankin, Paul. “Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants.” Hinds Community College. Heldref Publication