Hills like white elephnats
...seemingly naive and emotionally dependent on the older American, I think she actually displays bits of spirit , cleverness, and maturity in her comments and attitude towards her lover, which I also think contradicts her supposedly naïve personality. Although it seems as if it is the older American man who manipulates the young girl Jig in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" through his seemingly caring, although slick comments to her regarding the abortion, it actually appears to be Jig who is the better one at using reverse psychology and language to her own advantage. The dramatic point of view Hemingway gives in "Hills Like White Elephants" forces the reader to re-examine the moral character of the male and the female in the story, and the stereotypical portraits often drawn about men and women in the decision-making process about abortion, since we have no one passing judgments in the piece about who is advocating the right thing to do, to keep the child or abort it. Instead we only have the comments of the American man and the girl Jig to use in judging for ourselves the validity of their moral stance. Throughout the story, Hemingway uses metaphors to express the characters’ opinions and feelings. I think that the story “Hills Like White Elephants” displays the differences in the way a man and a woman view pregnancy and abortion. The woman looks at pregnancy as a beautiful aspect of life. In the story the woman’s pregnancy i...