Essay On Grief In A Rose For Emily And Hills Like White Elephants

Grief, it’ll destroy you. Some people’s way to deal with grief is isolating themselves for long periods of time or having anger stored in them and being disrespectful to others. In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the grief had emerged because Emily Grierson lost her father and her lover. The loss of her father was the main cause of the first wave of depression. For “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, the grief had surfaced because the girl, “Jig” had to deal with the thought of losing her unborn baby. She had a battle between what she wanted and what the significant other wanted, which was to make her have an abortion. Both stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Hills Like White Elephants” have a common conflict which is grief, but differences in characterization and theme in ways that deal with the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.

The problem with grief is that it is a problem. In both stories, grief caused both of the problems that were highlighted

“Jig” who was the female character in this story was dealing with it because she had to make the choice whether to do what she wanted which was to keep the baby, or do what her significant other wanted, in which he was titled, “The American”, and he wanted to have her get an abortion. If Jig wanted the baby, the man would have to settle down and raise a family, and he doesn’t want to do that because that means he’s giving up his lifestyle (Machetemag) “There were labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights” (The book, at the end). Jig wants the baby, she believes that this is the best option but when she talks, she uses words like ‘we’ instead of I, “Should we have another drink?”, this reveals her mental and probably financial dependence on the man. Therefore, it’ll be hard for her to possibly have this baby alone since she’s not even