Essay Comparing Hills Like White Elephants And The Story Of An Hour

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The role of gender in a relationship has always been a common topic in every society and culture since the later days. By the use of papers and pen, the writers express their feelings, deep felt emotions, personal experiences, views and issues about this certain topic. This subject has been prevalent in the world of literature since then. Ernest Hemingway in "Hills like White Elephants" and Kate Chopin in "The Story of an Hour" use the themes of oppression and repression to underscore two types of issues on male and female relations. Though these realism short stories does not share an exactly the same concept, both stories shows male and female roles in a relationship and society. To begin with, Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants" is about the story of a couple, a girl named Jig and an American man, who have an unknown relationship. In the story the man and Jig is talking back and forth with a bit of tension between them. The man wants Jig to have abortion but Jigs seems hesitant. The man repeatedly says that Jig does not need to do the operation if she does not want to, but in reality, he is demanding her to do it. …show more content…

None of the female protagonists on the two said short stories has the power to control their own life. In the story "Hills like white Elephants," Jig makes an extent decision about the abortion of her baby in a manipulative way. In the other story, "The story of an hour" Mrs. Mallard was not happy with her marriage. As the narrator states, “There would be no powerful will bending hers...” (37) It describes the kind of relationship she has with her spouse. Hemingway and Chopin did a brilliant job in creating a story that shows how male and female roles differs before and how females having a weak characterization deals with situations that is almost beyond their

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