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Doesn’t every woman deserve to have the correct pre and post natal care? For most women this is accessible if they have a middle to upper class lifestyle. This leaves women in a societal lower class and in poverty with little to no care when having a child. Ernest Hemingway addresses this issue in his short story “Indian Camp,” where a doctor helps an Indian woman give birth but without the proper care she deserves. Although it appears to be a story about a doctor performing a procedure in life threatening conditions, Hemingway addresses racism and sexism issues through the male characters behaviors and lack of care for women.
The native and white men both express sexist attitudes towards the Indian woman while she is giving birth, leaving her near death. As the
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doctor and Uncle George are entering the camp, the native men are along the road smoking, out of range of the screams coming from the Indian woman. The men appear to be annoyed and unconcerned with the birth happening inside of the shanty nearby. As they arrive in the shanty, the woman is screaming because of the agonizing pain she is in. The doctor says that her screams are not important. Some people may think that the doctor is suggesting that her screams are less important than helping her giving birth, but others might say this is an example of the doctors sexist attitudes. If the doctor was really concerned with how the Indian woman was feeling, he wouldn’t have said her screams are not important. With the doctor’s comment, it suggests that he doesn’t care for her and only cares for making sure that the baby’s life isn’t endangered. As the woman progresses further into labor, the pain she is experiencing increases. She is being held down by Uncle George and a few other native men so the doctor can perform a caesarian section on her to save the babies life. As she is being held down, she bites Uncle George which causes the native men to mock her. The young Indian man laughs after she bites him, which shows a clear lack of concern for how she is feeling. Out of all of the men holding her down, she choses to bite Uncle George. With her choice of who to bite and the men laughing at her, this starts to suggest that Uncle George raped her and this is his baby being born. The Indian woman would choose to bite Uncle George because it would be his fault that she is going through all of this pain during her labor because he raped her. The native men mock her because of their sexist attitudes they already have expressed towards her. Women were treated more like objects than anything else, which explains why they would treat her the way that they do knowing that she was raped by Uncle George. Along with sexism, the Indian woman suffered due to the racist attitudes the white men have towards her.
Every doctor should have the correct medical tools and supplies at hand at all times, no matter the person or circumstance. When the doctor arrives to the shanty, he has his supplies placed in boiling water to clean and sterilize them. But when it came time for him to perform the caesarian section, the only tools he had were a jack knife and tapered gut leaders. The doctor didn’t have the proper care for the woman because he had tools to put in the water, but when it came time for the actual procedure he didn’t have the correct tools. The doctor is racist towards the woman because when she bit Uncle George, the doctor said he had peroxide for his arm. It wouldn’t make sense that he has peroxide for Uncle George but only has his fishing supplies for the procedure. After the woman bit Uncle George, he reacted by saying “Damn squaw bitch.” This is a racist attack towards the Indian woman coming from a white man. “Squaw” is a racist attack towards the native race. This shows that Uncle George believes he is a white man conqueror and is able to say these things women, especially women of a different
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