Summary: The Hills Like White Elephants
“The Hills Like White Elephants”
As I started to read through the poem I felt like I easily understood the setting. It was very easy for me to picture this man and woman having a conversation and sharing drinks. I did not easily understand what the subject of their conversation was the first time I read through the poem but I did recognize it was affecting the young girl named Jig. I first realized something was going on when the man kept repeating that everything will be okay and he kept repeating the words “perfectly simple” and she would repeatedly say that she will be “fine”. In the poem the man says “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig” (line 42 ). To me I knew that this girl Jig had to make a decision but I did not
As I started to read through the poem I felt like I easily understood the setting. It was very easy for me to picture this man and woman having a conversation and sharing drinks. I did not easily understand what the subject of their conversation was the first time I read through the poem but I did recognize it was affecting the young girl named Jig. I first realized something was going on when the man kept repeating that everything will be okay and he kept repeating the words “perfectly simple” and she would repeatedly say that she will be “fine”. In the poem the man says “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig” (line 42 ). To me I knew that this girl Jig had to make a decision but I did not