Complex Relationship between the American and Jig in Hemingway’s Hills

The Complex Relationship between the American and trip the light fantastic in Ernest Hemingways Hills the manages of White Elephants In Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants, the American and dance are like the tracks at the coach station, they can never meet. While Jig represents fertility, life and continuity, the American represents sterility, graveness and death. Unfortunately, Jig depends emotionally on the American as many women depended on their male counterparts in the 1940s and lacks the autonomy and willpower required to openly affirm herself in their relationship. As they struggle to find common ground, the really discussion that can bring them together only weeping them apart. The differences in each character in their personality, means of communication and desires truly express the constant opposition that burns between them, this very opposition leads to the couplets inevitable separation, as Jig discovers herself and her independence through the dilemma at hand. The ubiquitous conflict between the American and Jig is underlined by the tremendous differences in their personality, communication methods and desires. In the beginning, the environment seems relaxed, neither, the American nor Jig, is speaking. Jig is looking out at the scenery that is brown and dry (paragraph 8) like their relationship as the American orders drinks. Unlike the American who is disconnected, Jig seems to be imaginative, intuitive and connected with her world, while she gazes out the window, she remarks that the hills look like snow-clad elephants (paragraph 9). At this point, she seems to have something on her mind white elephants are believed to be rare and precious, although they require much upkeep, commitment and sacrifice, e... ...g and the American is what eventually tears them apart, they have different needs and desires and this, in turn, allows Jig to discover her independence, disdain the difficult choice she faces. After having weighed everything, Jig would have probably had the abortion. irrespective of whether she leaves the American or remains forever unhappy with him, Jigs decision is made she takes a final stance and acknowledges in an juiceless tone I feel fine theres zero point wrong with me. I feel fine (paragraph 110). The question of self-affirmation has been solved here, as she looks to her own self, her own happiness and her own will to look at things as they are. WORKS CITEDHemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants. Literature An Introduction to training and Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts. 4th Compact Ed. Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall, 2008. 290-293.