Hills Like White Elephant By Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway has written a short story that has all thinking. The short story, Hills like White Elephants can have many different viewpoints and they all seem to make sense! There are three main scenarios that fit the story, the girl will have the abortion and stay with the man, she’ll have the abortion and leave the man or she will not have the abortion and the man will stay with her (Hashmi 72).
Hills like White Elephants is about an American man and a girl waiting at a train station that will take them to Madrid. They are drinking beer and tasting Anis del Toro, a type of drink while they are having a discussion. The conversation between the two is quite tense, while the man is trying to encourage her to have an operation. The operation …show more content…
Nilofer Hashmi agrees with me by saying she decided to have the abortion but not in order to resume her life with the American (72). The conversation between the two seem to indicate that there is little love between them (Hashmi 73). The girl now wants more than a relationship based on sex and alcohol, would have no reason to stay with the man. However, there are some details in the short story that fail to fit this scenario. Why is she smiling at a man who she supposedly can’t tolerate when he tells her he should move the bags? Why does she lead the man on to think that she wants him to come back so they can finish their drinks together?!
And she smiles again when he returns from putting the bag by the railroad tracks. Her smiling actually doesn’t seem like she wants to leave the man (Hashmi 73). I think she’s is just doing that so he doesn’t think anything is wrong with her and so they won’t have to start up another conversation again! She doesn’t want to have to raise the child alone, she wants to have the child together. But that isn’t what he wants. Therefore, she will still have the abortion but she and the man will not be together by her
Hills like White Elephants is about an American man and a girl waiting at a train station that will take them to Madrid. They are drinking beer and tasting Anis del Toro, a type of drink while they are having a discussion. The conversation between the two is quite tense, while the man is trying to encourage her to have an operation. The operation …show more content…
Nilofer Hashmi agrees with me by saying she decided to have the abortion but not in order to resume her life with the American (72). The conversation between the two seem to indicate that there is little love between them (Hashmi 73). The girl now wants more than a relationship based on sex and alcohol, would have no reason to stay with the man. However, there are some details in the short story that fail to fit this scenario. Why is she smiling at a man who she supposedly can’t tolerate when he tells her he should move the bags? Why does she lead the man on to think that she wants him to come back so they can finish their drinks together?!
And she smiles again when he returns from putting the bag by the railroad tracks. Her smiling actually doesn’t seem like she wants to leave the man (Hashmi 73). I think she’s is just doing that so he doesn’t think anything is wrong with her and so they won’t have to start up another conversation again! She doesn’t want to have to raise the child alone, she wants to have the child together. But that isn’t what he wants. Therefore, she will still have the abortion but she and the man will not be together by her