“Hills Like White Elephants” focuses on the dialogue between a woman and man. The story takes place during the 1920’s in Northern Spain. Written by Ernest Hemingway, the White Elephant is used to symbolize the debate of abortion. Hemingway conveys this message cryptically by keeping the actual discussion of abortion out of the short story. Does the girl in the story stay in her relationship with the man?
I believe the woman stays with her partner and aborts the baby. The dialogue between the two shows that the woman is subservient to the man. She repeats multiple times how she would do anything to make him happy. On page 477, the woman says, “Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me.” Indicating, she is less worried about herself and focused on how her partner feels. Instead of leaving the relationship in the end and speaking up, she obediently says how she is “fine”. As annoyed the woman is with him, she repeatedly comes back to the conversation and doesn’t end it. With this information, I have concluded that woman will stay with him. When have you made an important choice to stay in a relationship or leave a relationship -- OR -- stay or leave a difficult situation? Junior year, I met a girl--we’ll call her "Jane" for confidentiality purposes--I felt very strongly for… Unfortunately, the feelings we had for each other had faded on her part. I became a burden to her due to my severe depression and we broke up. Although “Jane” had moved on, I still loved her. Our friendship became extremely unhealthy and “one-way”. Even though I knew things would never be the same, I tried tremendously hard to get things to the way they had been. For two years, I was in and out of relations with “Jane”. And to this day I have yet to get over her. I know it will be hard to get past what we had, but what is meant to be, will be.
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Kacie Montano
9/28/2017 11:16:41 am
Julia I agree with your view on the girl and how she is subservient to the man and how she basically puts him before her own health.
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Julia Thornton
9/29/2017 11:47:15 am
I can see why you think the woman stays with her partner instead of the baby. She does mention a lot how she would do anything for him, even if that means aborting the baby. I am very sorry about Jane, and i hope that you can move on and find someone better who can make you happier.
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Walter Foggy
10/1/2017 08:55:03 pm
I did not think the women was being submissive. Glad to see from a different perspective.
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Regina King
10/2/2017 12:23:06 pm
HI Julia,
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