Gema Perez
Ms. Lovett
AP Literature
Relationships Parallel to Gender Roles in Hills Like White Elephants
Of all the issues roiling on the ongoing culture in the 1920's abortion was both the most intimate and the most common one. Almost half of every American women terminated at least one pregnancy, in which those women have been testimony for abortion as a crime. In America abortion was illegal but possible; abortion has been legal since 1973 but before then abortion was a very common yet dangerous procedure. During the 1920's women often times turned to dangerous, illegal methods to terminate their pregnancy. Today abortion is common and safe procedure, and although it was common during the 1920's it was not always safe. The national debate over abortion usually centers on the legal and political controversies. On the other hand, it is in the human heart where the greatest conflicts over abortion arise both within itself and in its relationship with others.
Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918
Ernest Hemingway's house- Key West, FL
American Author Ernest Hemingway aboard his Yacht ...The empowerment and the continual push for equal status for women has become widely popular and successful. Women have stepped out of traditional roles of being a housewife, a mother to more assertive natures. Many controversial issues surround women's crusade of freedoms including the widely debated right to choose what she does to her body, referring to an abortion. In 1927 Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story titled, Hills Like White Elephants that expressed a feminist movement focusing around this issue. Through the character's development and ability to come to her own decision despite her boyfriend's constant pressure suggests a powerful feminist theme in a society dominated by men. (Azhar, Samina) Jig and the American's relationship in Hills Like White elephants is depicted as unstable. Hemingway characterizes the American as a coward yet condescending and Jig as reproachful yet guileful...