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

The Complex Relationship between the Ameri washstand and jig in Ernest Hemingways Hills Like smock Elephants In Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants, the American and Jig are like the tracks at the train station, they can never meet. While Jig represents fertility, life and continuity, the American represents sterility, dryness 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 put forward herself in their descent. As they struggle to find common ground, the very word that can bring them together only tears them apart. The differences in severally character in their personality, means of communication and desires truly emphasize the constant quantity opposition that burns between them, this very opposition leads to the couples 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 fearsome differences in their personality, communication methods and desires. In the beginning, the environment seems relaxed, neither, the American nor Jig, is speaking. Jig is face out at the scenery that is br let and dry (paragraph 8) like their relationship as the American orders drinks. Unlike the American who is disconnected, Jig seems to be imaginative, self-generated and connected with her world, while she gazes out the window, she remarks that the hills look like white elephants (paragraph 9). At this point, she seems to select something on her mind white elephants are believed to be ancient 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, despite the gruelling choice she faces. After having weighed every thing, Jig would have probably had the abortion. Regardless of whether she leaves the American or remains forever unhappy with him, Jigs decisiveness is made she takes a final stance and acknowledges in an ironic belief I feel fine theres nothing handle 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 Reading and Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts. quaternary Compact Ed. Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall, 2008. 290-293.