Two Critical Analyses of Hemingway ’s "Hills Like White Elephants" In "Hills Like White Elephants: The Jilting Of Jig‚" Nilofer Hashmi explores the many different layers of symbolism‚ the role of the American male‚ and the possible outcomes of the story. The use of symbolism is great in this story; therefore Hashmi uses the words of many critics to get through the various layers that the symbolism poses. Hashmi uses Doris Lanier ’s argument for support in his article. Lanier states‚ "everything
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box and to make them go back and figure out why and how certain situations occur. The Hills Like White Elephants symbolizes the lives of Jig and the American‚ where they’ve been and where they’re going. What the future holds for them if they do keep the baby and what will happen if they don’t. He talks about how the hills in the story predicts her decision‚ how Jig sees the setting of the story as a helping hand‚ and how she cant do anything to save her relationship with the man. “The hills across
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Hills Like White Elephants‚” by Ernest Hemingway is a story about a girl and a manwaiting for their train and discuss the girl‟s upcoming abortion. The man does not want the girl‚ Jig‚ to have the child; he wants her all to himself. Jig‚ however‚ does want the child but is scaredabout the abortion and wants to please the man by doing what he wants. “The Love of My Life‚” by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a story about a girl‚ China‚ and her boyfriend‚ Jeremy‚ who have unprotected sex during a camping
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would a growing baby in Jig ’s womb. The hills symbolize the swollen breasts of a pregnant woman as wells a belly full of expectations and pending motherhood (Weeks‚ 76). A white elephant is a symbol of something of little value which is expensive and difficult to maintain. This is how Jig and the American saw the baby‚ as a costly‚ added expense in their lives and more of an interruption in their plans (Hemingway‚ 552). Moreover‚ one of the hills from the perspectives of Jig could represent her lifestyle
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girl‚ called only Jig. To me‚ the author did not name the man on purpose. The author wanted to show explicitly that the man represented many types of American men‚ therefore his identity was not obfuscated.
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Hills Like White Elephants In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway it can be assumed that the girl Jig gets an abortion and does not stay together with the American considering the amount of conflict they have shown in the text. Jig seems a lot younger than the American‚ since she is referred to as girl in the story. Also‚ she seems like she wants to have the abortion. Example from the text‚ “I’ll do it and everything will be fine (Ernest Hemingway)”. However‚ she is
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Throughout his work “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism and condensed metaphors to sensationalize the power‚ yet subtleness of the main theme: happiness. While the title does not blatantly represent the characters pursuit of happiness‚ the simile used in the title does epitomize Hemingway’s writing style as well as the diverse use of symbolism throughout the narrative. Hemingway uses this symbolism to convey the unspoken thoughts and emotions of the characters and the ultimate
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“Hills Like White Elephants” is a discussion of an potential abortion. As the girl who the American refers to as “Jig”‚ first mentions that the hills on the one side of the train station remind her of white elephants‚ readers quickly become unaware as to what she is meaning by this statement. When having a second glance at this description‚ the meaning shortly becomes clear that Jig is speaking of an abortion. When using the word “white” to describe something‚ it can often be used to mean more than
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story. Using both Carl Jung and Karen Horney’s application of human behavior to buttress his opinion‚ Rankin comes to the conclusion that Jig was the superior actor and the unnamed American is the inferior actor in the play. The evidence Rankin uses to prove Jung’s theory is that the nature of the mans feelings of inadequacy and inferiority in the face of Jigs imminent transformation from the girl into motherhood (Rankin 234). And his conclusions using Horney’s school of thought is mans fundamental
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story sets place in Spain where a woman named Jig and the American man are seated outside of a bar near a railroad junction. The couple starts out by having a few beers and discussing a problem they are facing in their relationship‚ as the conversation continues between the two‚ you can see that the couple is starting to get slightly angry and aggravated with each other whether or not they should proceed to Barcelona in order to have an abortion. Jig disagrees with the American’s choice‚ although
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