The Themes of Abortion and Pregnancy in Hills Like White Elephants :: Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like livid Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a grade that takes place in Spain objet dart a military personnel and wo part wait for a train. The story is prepare up as a dialogue between the two, in which the earth is trying to convince the charwoman to do something she is hesitant in doing. with out the story, Hemingway uses metaphors to express the characters opinions and feelings. 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 womans pregnancy is implied through their conversation. She refers to the near by hills as elephants They look like white elephants (464). She is comparing the hills to her own situation, pregnancy. Theyre endearing hills. They really dont look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees (465). Just as the hills give birth their distinct beauty to her, she view s pregnancy in the same fashion fashioning the reference to the hills having skinan enlarged mound forming off of what was once flat. The man views pregnancy just the opposite. When the girl is talking about the white elephants and agrees that the man has never seen one, his response is, I might have, just because you say I havent doesnt prove anything (464). This shows the defensive nature of the man, and when the woman implies the he is unable to differentiate between what is beautiful and what is not. Another edit that is discussed in this story is abortion and two opposing views. When the conversation turns from the hills to the action one is able to comprehend the mentality of the woman. Then what will we do aft(prenominal)wards? (465) shows the woman is concerned about what will occur after the operation. And if I do it you will be happy and things will be like they were and you will love me (465). Here, the woman implies she wants the reassurance that he will stock-still be there after the operation, because an abortion places an emotional strain on the on the woman. Throughout the story it is evident that the woman is not certain(predicate) if she wants to have the abortionshown in her hesitation to agree. The woman feels that people fool freedom through experiences. And we could have all of this, and every day we crap it more impossible (466).