“Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway” is about a young couple with very bad communication skills debating over a problematic issue or decision for abortion. The main focus is of this big decision that Jig has to make. In the conversation readers can see that the two individuals are on the edge in their relationship. The communication between the two is very one sided and argumentative with little to no progress. The narrator demonstrates the emotional emptiness between the two characters while a threat of a decision intervenes on their relationship affecting how it will change and what the future will hold for them. Throughout the conversation Jig does not express her true feelings towards the situation and instead becomes theatrical. Jig is clearly uncomfortable with the topic at hand possibly because she doesn’t know what to do herself. Her boyfriend isn’t of much help with her figuring things out. I believe that Jig wants to fix her relationship and is willing to do whatever so desperately she needs to. The operation of having an abortion is a huge interference on her relationship and could possibly destroy it. Jig starts to become passive aggressive while saying,” If I do it you …show more content…
“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”, the man says. He seems to tell her what she wants to hear but not without throwing in his true input of, “it’s perfectly simple”. He kept saying over and over again how the procedure is so simple, to be in a sense brainwashing her to feel like it’s not a big deal. This is the first signs of them not being connected as one in the relationship and not having a healthy communication system. He continues to pressure into doing this “simple” procedure without even noticing her tone and other expressions towards the