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Lost In Translation And Hills Like White Elephant Compare And Contrast

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There are many different types of relationships. There is the relationship between and man and a woman, a brother and sister, best friends, and many more. But at some point, all those relationships hit some kind of rough patch. Whether the rough patch is just a little argument causing the two to not talk, or it is big enough to where they leave each other. In two different stories of three different relationships both of those rough patches happen. In Lost in Translation by Sophia Coppola and Hills like White Elephants by Earnest Hemingway, all of the couples are in a rough part of the relationship where it is dry and none of them know until they start paying attention more to the other person. In Coppola’s story, Charlotte and Bob meet in Tokyo while on business. Bob is a washed up actor trying to get his life together while Charlotte is following her photographer husband around. In Hemingway’s story, Jig and the American are traveling and bring up a touchy subject that neither of them really wants to talk about. In both Lost in Translation and Hills like White Elephants all relationships learn new things about each other and the real world throughout their disintegrating relationships. …show more content…

The relationships between man and woman should be stronger than anything. They should be able to talk about anything and solve whatever they are disputing about. The siblings struggling relationship should be solved with an easy answer and talking about what it was that made them start arguing. The difficult relationship between the best friends should be solved by talking as well. When a couple does not talk for a long period of time, both the man and the woman get frustrated with the other so that when they do talk, they end up yelling and having an argument. Talking is the key thing that makes relationships work

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