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Dependence to Independence in Hills Like White Elephants In Ernest Hemingway’s â€Å"Hills Like White Elephants,† the lives of Jig and the American, the main characters, are put on display for a brief period of time. Jig and the man have had a romantic relationship for quite some time, and now their future together is in jeopardy. The impregnation of Jig has caused the American to pressure her into getting an abortion. We find these two individuals in the Valley of the Ebro. Traveling from Barcelona to Madrid, the couple takes these few minutes to discuss the future of their baby. Jig now must make one of the most important decisions of her life – to have the abortion and stay with the American, or to have the baby and end the†¦show more content†¦The presence of the sun symbolizes the â€Å"rays of truth†. â€Å"The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade.† Hiding from the inevitable truth – the inevitable topic of discussion, Jig and the male sit in the shade of the rail station. During Jig and the American’s first conversation, the girl is â€Å"†¦looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry†¦. ‘They [the hills] look like white elephants,’ she said. ‘I’ve never seen one,’ the man drank his beer. ‘No, you wouldn’t have.’ ‘I might have,’ the man said. ‘Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.’† The hills Jig are referring to offer insight into the situation at hand. Blurry, distant, and white, the hills that she stares at are representative of a pregnant woman’s stomach. The â€Å"white elephants† are emblematic of an item that is useless or unwanted. The â€Å"white elephant† in this forty-minute encounter is the baby. S. Abdoo offers a further explanation of the hills in his essay, â€Å"Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephantsâ₠¬â„¢Ã¢â‚¬ . â€Å"†¦she [Jig] ruminates that it is not so much that the hills look like elephants as that the color of them in the sun reminds her of the coloring of their skin (72). The association of words, from hills to elephants to skin, followed immediately by the Americans first allusion to abortion as an awfully simple operation (72),Show MoreRelatedSocietal Prejudice Against Women in Hills Like White Elephants926 Words   |  4 Pages In the short story Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemmingways characters situation is greatly a product of the social standards for men and women of the time around the 1930s. 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