man’s deception is to observe that the girl‚ known as Jig‚ is not entirely convinced of the operation to begin with. In the opening of the story‚ Jig displays an amount of assertiveness when requesting that she and her accomplice take part in drinking beer. A small gesture such as this insinuates that the girl is not afraid to speak her mind and let her own thoughts be known. Her later actions confirm this when she observes the similarities between
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look at “Hills Like White Elephants” through the restaurant when they are ordering drinks‚ the gender roles of male dominance and female submissiveness. The story begins with Jig‚ the female character asking‚ “What should we drink?”(Hemingway pg. 211). The male taking control and ordering the drinks shows the dominance while Jig is portrayed as submissive or weak compared to the man. We can compare this to the female narrator in “Boys and Girls”(whose name we never find out). The narrator had a younger
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continue to debate whether she will go through with it. The man’s persuasive dialogue makes it apparent that he wants Jig to have the abortion and is worried that she will change her mind‚ however she is more concerned with the fate of her relationship with the man and the effects an abortion may have on her. The first
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In the short story an American man and a girl named Jig are sitting in a rail station waiting for the train to Madrid. While they are waiting‚ they have an intense‚ ongoing discussion over whether or not Jig will get an abortion. The hills are viewed as a symbol of how big obstacles can set minor setback in life‚ but you have to find a way around to move on. In the story‚ Jig looked at the hills and said‚ "They look like white elephants." To Jig the case was very rare to encounter such animal. The
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an awkward conversation between a young couple‚ but as we delve deeper into each story‚ we are presented with the theme of choice and gender. Bartleby is presented with a number of choices and opportunities to leave his place of work‚ and the woman‚ Jig‚ faces the choice of whether to get an abortion or not. This theme of decision making shows how gender roles play into our freedom of choice and our opportunities. In Bartleby’s case‚ he is able to ultimately decide his fate due to the fact he is male
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swollen breasts and the belly of a pregnant woman. “On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun” (Hemingway 294). Though the term “abortion” is never found in the story‚ the American man and Jig are threatened by this complicated decision. There are only two choices‚ or two directions‚ comparable to how there are only two track lines that pass through the station. Unfortunately‚ both characters have dissimilar viewpoints on the circumstance
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future? While the female character ’s name is Jig the narrator does not refer to her by name; instead‚ he uses "the girl" in contrast to "the man" or "the American" for the male character. This use of "the girl" establishes the tone of the male character ’s speech to her: patronizing and inconsiderate. The American is anxious for Jig to have the abortion because he “doesn’t want anybody but [her]” (Hemmingway 47). He is interested in his life with Jig continuing as it has‚ globetrotting‚ and having
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Jig is a woman that is pregnant and she does not know if she wants to keep the baby or not. Jig boyfriend is telling her that he does not want her to have a baby‚ and he just want it to be him and her traveling around the world together. In the beginning of the passage Jig really wants the baby‚ but her boyfriend said it is just a simply operation to get rid of the baby. She started to rethink what she really wanted. Her boyfriend is really trying to talk her out of having the baby. Jig turns out
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Perspective “Hills like white elephants‚” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway that was published back in 1927. The story consist of three characters all together but only have two as the main which is an American man and his girlfriend Jig. The third character is the waitress at the train station that takes their order. The story starts off with the couple sitting outside at a table under the shade waiting for the express to come into Barcelona to take them to Madrid. The story consists
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crisis. The young woman in the story who is known as “Jig” is very submissive and less assertive when compared to the strong masculine character of the American. The girl constantly changes her mind about the situation and seems helpless without aide from her boyfriend‚ which causes her to adhere to a more feminine stereotype in which the woman is the weaker gender in comparison to the male figure. As the story progresses‚ however‚ the Jig starts to take an active feminist role as she realizes the
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