“Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway-ABORTION

However, she is pregnant and has only both choices. Having an miscarriage seems like the only choice she is truly considering, plainly this does non make the choice easy or pleasant, as the man is trying to make it.

The man appears to c ar more or less the cleaning cleaning woman, at least when they begin to discuss the abortion directly, scarcely this appearance is deceptive. His only true concern is with the crimp that her motherhood has put in their living of utter leisure. The man and woman are homelyly without major money worries, traveling around Europe for an extended period of time with no apparent concern for finances. As the woman says with some sense of sentiency of the frivolity of their lives, "That's all we do, isn't it--look at affaires and try new drinks?" (Hemingway 616). She says this with self-mocking, mayhap even loathing herself and the man for their school existence, especially when they are about to abort the fetus largely in purchase order to be able to continue that shallow existence.

In each case, the man's solicitous attitude toward the woman does not wear the sought after effect on her. He wants her to be quiet, stop do a big deal of the short letter, be happy, have the abortion, and revert with him to their travels and leisure and drinking new drinks. He says "It's really an awfully sim

ple operation, Jig," calling the woman by name for the first time, an indication, perhaps, of his desire to soften her up for his persuading. She asks him what volition happen after she has this "simple operation" which is "perfectly natural." He says, "We'll be fine afterward. Just like we were before. . . . That's the only thing that bothers us. It's the only thing that's made us unhappy" (Hemingway 616). Of course, the woman is doubtful that everything leave behind be fine or that they will be happy afterward. To the woman, it appears, they were not that happy before this situation arose. She seems to have been unhappy prior to her pregnancy, only when was simply not forced to face her dissatisfaction, until, that is, her pregnancy.

The pregnancy has thr witness the shallowness of her life with the man into the stark glare of reality.

The woman wants to have the baby, or at least considers having it. She says to the man, "Doesn't it [the baby] mean anything to you? We could get along" (Hemingway 617). However, her own selfishness should not be underestimated. To be with such a shallow man, she must at least be capable of a good deal shallowness herself. She does not seem passionate about having the baby, but instead seems stricken by the fact that the man so determinedly does not want to have it. Even if a part of her wants the baby, she will likely have the abortion if it means she is going to have to lose her relationship with the man, and if it means that she would have to raise the child by herself.

When the man claims that he has "know lots of people that have [had abortions]," the woman responds, "So have I," and adds sarcastically, "and afterward they were all so happy" (Hemingway 616). She goes on to incredulity him about loving her again and everything being "nice again" if she has the abortion. She says she doesn't care about herself, and he says that he doesn't want her to do it in that case. Neither is being honest. She is hiding her fear (at the abortion and at their lif
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