Jig

this story, the love being describe is manipulative love. Jig, the girl, is in love with an American man. She is ambivalent, but she doesn’t realize it. In the story, she says” And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be they were and you’ll love me?”(pg.3) Jig really wants loved by American man. He makes life with him worth giving up everything be with him. She doesn’t want nothing to destroy the relationship between her and him. Jig states “And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy

Past, Present, and Future The story, “Hills Like White Elephants”, written by Ernest Hemingway, tells a dialogue story of a woman named Jig and the American man who is waiting at the train station for their ride to Madrid. Jig and the American man are having a casual conversation about the scenery that the nearby hills look like white elephants. Then, there conversation turns serious as they talk about their relationship and their future unborn child. In Ernest Hemingway’s story, the characters’

Jigs begins looking at the scenery around them, she notices how the hills are white in the sun and how the country is brown and dry. She then states, “They look like white elephants.” (12) According to the Oxford Mini Dictionary, while elephant means a useless possession. (755) This symbolism is to describe the unborn baby that Jig is carrying. The American states, “I’ve never seen one.” Then Jig states, “No you wouldn’t have.” (10) This is showing

includes the vivid action of Jig taking hold of only two of the strings (Oliver 203). Ironically, the reader can predict Jig practices the Catholic religion, who believe and view abortion as a devilish sin. By caressing the bead curtain Jig is praying and seeking guidance to come up with a solution to the critical decision. In his article, Stanley Kozikowski discusses the cool wind that blew the bead curtain, and the effect causes different interpretations of the American and Jig. The American interprets

Ernest Hemingway, the theme explores the realms of talking vs. communicating. Although Jig and the American attempt to communicate, it does not really happen. They are talking to each other without really considering what the other person is saying. Both seem to have dynamic personalities. This can create roadblocks in their ability to hear each other out. The American uses manipulative word tactics to off rail Jig, while she tends to call the shots in what they talk about. Throughout the story, the

Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephant is about a couple, the American and a female named Jig debating about an operation Jig should have. Throughout the story, Jig is distant, the American is rational. Although the story never explicitly states what it is that the couple is arguing, if you really think about it, you’d realize that the tough situation where they are trying to make a decision, keeping their unborn child or having an abortion based on several different suggestions described.

The story begin with the author writing of the hills that stretched across the valley of the Ebro River, and on both sides of the train station the hills were white. The man and the girl Jig were at a train station in Barcelona waiting on an express train to take them to Madrid. In the story the reader could assume the girl went through with the abortion or she did not have the abortion by the dialogue. The view the characters had in front

isn’t always the case. One of Hemingway’s most iconic short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants”, takes place in the early 1920s. The two protagonists are a girl named Jig and her American boyfriend whose

(Hemingway 476). The man speaks for himself, as well as Jig, not listening to Jig's opinion. He makes the decisions in the relationship and does not properly communicate with the partner. In contrast, Jig is characterized as indecisive, vulnerable, less assertive and less persuasive. She is helpless and heavily dependent on the man. The submission in the relationship diminishes a matched communication level. When told by the man to have an abortion, Jig replies, "And if I do it you'll be happy and things

Having an abortion is a widely discussed controversial topic. Jig and the American, the main characters struggle with the concept of having an abortion. Like most people, they struggle with the idea of what is morally right. They go back and forth about what they think is best for themselves and their relationship. Ernest Hemingway uses symbols like the hills, the beer and something else to express the way the couple feels toward abortion. Jig represents a pregnant women toying with the idea of abortion