Every person is entitled to his or her own personal ways of life to become his or her own individual. However, some people have unbalanced roles in life between themselves and their couple. The women in the relationship tend to be the persons who get manipulated into just providing and satisfying their significant other’s needs. This ongoing unbalance between the sexes, has been happening since forever and women feel secure when being together with a man. Mrs. Ames from Astronomer’s wife and Jig from Hills like White Elephants are both women who have depended on a man for secureness but with ambiguous communication, these women are finding affection elsewhere.
Mrs. Ames from Astronomer’s wife is a great illustration of women feeling comfortable in their relationship to the point that they do not recognize how unhappy their relationship really is. For example, the author mentions “to survive women cling to the floating debris on the tide" (64). Meaning, women need to depend on someone to help them survive but when truth is told and their identity is found, there is no more need to hold on to survive. A similar life lesson, with a much different approach can be examined in Jig from Hills like White Elephants short story. Jig is a woman with much more problems than just making an extreme decision that could change her life but a woman in an unhappy relationship.
In the beginning of Astronomer’s wife, Mrs. Ames starts off with having her husband sleep in while she deals with the flood going on in her home. Having to call a plumber to come fix the problem, she was very impressed with the plumber’s manors, and he also had respect something she thought her husband was lacking on. Since the flood was caused by the toilet over flowing ...
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...ng. She examines the issue of divorce and remarrying, using relationships as a tool for social climbing, she also examines the insecurities that arise when a man discovers that the definition he placed on the woman in his life isn’t as realistic as he would like to think. She subtly addresses the issue of man’s desire to own and define women they are in a relationship with, while trying to control any of her social interactions that could potentially threaten his sense of ownership.
“Roman Fever” and “Hills Like White Elephants” are two stories that on surface seem very different from one another, but through careful analysis the two are quite similar. Their similarities are mainly evident through the significant use of the dialogues in the both stories. “Roman Fever” has a third person omniscient narrator which the author allows to know the inner private thoughts of both characters, Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley. In contrast, “Hills Like White Elephants” is composed in a third person limited narrative where very little is known about the thoughts of both Jig and the American. At first Ernest Hemingway’s short story can clearly be viewed as the most ambiguous out of the two. With its simplistic style, written mostly in straightforward dialogue which leaves the readers to contemplate over the ultimate outcome of the story and forces them to ...
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All over the world, marriage is one of the main things that define a woman’s life. In fact, for women, marriage goes a long way to determine much in their lives including happiness, overall quality of life whether or not they are able to set and achieve their life goals. Some women go into marriages that allow them to follow the paths they have chosen and achieve their goals while for other women, marriage could mean the end of their life goals. For Janie, the lead character in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, who was married twice first to Joe sparks, and to Vergile Tea Cake, her two marriages to these men greatly affected her happiness, quality of life and pursuit of her life goals in various ways, based on the personality of each of the men. Although both men were very different from each other, they were also similar in some ways.
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The art, literature, and poetry of the early 20th century called for a disruption of social values. Modernism became the vague term to describe the shift. The characteristics of the term Modernism, all seek to free the restricted human spirit. It had no trust in the moral conventions and codes of the past. One of the examples of modernism, that breaks the conventions and traditions of literature prior to Modernism, is Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants”. The short story uses plot, symbolism, setting, dialogue, and a new style of writing to allow human spirit to experiment with meaning and interpretation.
Hills Like White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes place in Spain while a man and woman wait for a train. The story is set up as a dialogue between the two, in which the man is trying to convince the woman to do something she is hesitant in doing. Through out the story, Hemingway uses metaphors to express the characters’ opinions and feelings.
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