I think that Jig saw her pregnancy and the challenges that it would bring as wonderful. She say’s “they’re lovely hills.” When Jig says, “they look like white elephants” she is remarking on how rare and beautiful a child is, just as a white elephant would be a rare and beautiful site in nature. The American says “I’ve never seen one” and Jig pointedly remarks that he wouldn’t have. This tells me that she feels the beauty of unborn life as only a mother to be can and that she realizes that he has no way of knowing how she feels. The unrelenting heat represents the steaminess of the sexual relationship between Jig and the American.
No tenderness or pain was noted, No drainage, no perforation, no swelling or redness noted of the ear canal, Tympanic membrane is pearly gray, Shinny, translucent, non bulging or retracted. No impacted cerumen noted. Cranial Nerve 8 is intact with no auditory hearing loss. He was able to repeat words (Apple and Base ball). Good response to Rinne and Weber test, sound is symmetrical with no
Setting in “Hills Like White Elephants“ The scene in the short story “Hills Like White Elephants“ by Ernest Hemingway opens with description of a landscape in the valley of the River Ebro in Spain. The country is brown and dry and the valley is surrounded by long and white hills. There is a railway station between the two rails, where people are waiting for the express from Barcelona to Madrid, which is about to come in 40 minutes. There is a bar which provides an escape from the heating sun since there are no tress and no shade anywhere else in the valley. The short descriptions of setting may not seem very detailed but combined with dialogues they tell us the true meaning of this three and a half page story.
At the end of the story, we can only assume that they decide to go through with the abortion, when Jig tells the American male “I don’t care about me.” The man goes and haves a drink by himself and return to his companion. She assures him that she is fine and they both head to Madrid, where, presumably, the abortion will take place. Some of the themes used in this story includes the coming of age, psychological manipulation in a sense that he attempts to manipulate Jig into having the abortion by presenting the operation as a simple procedure that is in her best interests. The dynamics of the romantic relationship and it’s metamorphosis into a family is another theme. When it comes to symbolism, this story has plenty of it.
The girlfriend says that the hills in the distance look like white elephants, which the man says that he has not seen one. They order a type of liquor called Anis del Toro and start to argue about the taste of it. The Man scolds his girlfriend about it and tells her to enjoy herself. The girlfriend says to the man that she’s trying to have some fun and then takes away her opinion of the hills looking like white elephants. They soon order another round of beers, and the man comments that he wants her to have an operation, but he never says what kind of operation he wants her to have.
She has lowered herself expectations in life to satisfy someone else’s. Another excerpt from this story that I would like to view is “Well, the man said, “If you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.” She has listened to him try and rationalizes the “easy” procedure of an abortion. Like, how would he know?
“Hills” are symbolized as the bulging belly of a pregnant woman and the “White Elephants” are symbolized as a baby or the birth of a baby. White elephants are very rare and expensive to raise so the baby is symbolized as White Elephants. The girl is very pendent and a creeper. She entirely understands that she is
A round of beer to start, then Anis de Toro (a strong liquor). A set of train tracks runs on each side of the train station. The train that they are waiting for that goes to Madrid will arrive in forty minutes on the other side of the building. In front of them the scene is flat and dry. There are not any trees in sight only two distant hills and the woman refers to them as white elephants.
The American discounts the young woman’s remark and keeps drinking (Napierkowski, par. 2). This statement and the title are symbolic to the meaning of the story. At the time the story was written, it was well known that if one was given a white elephant then they are given an unwanted and useless gift. This leads the reader to believe that this is what the story is about.
The other side of the train station is green, luscious and fruitful like her womb if she reaches full term and gives birth to her child. The train station in other words is only a stopping point and not Jig’s final destination. When Jig describes the hills as white elephants, the reader understands that she is trying to make light of her situation with her boyfriend. She is trying to make something more interesting and significant than it really is. This clearly shows us how she feels with the lifestyle she is living with her boyfriend when she says, “That’s all we