Introduction: I have read the short-story, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway. In this blog post, I will be answering two questions; one about the reading, and one about my life. The story is about a woman and her significant other talking about an abortion at a train station. The woman has to decide to stay or leave the man based on both of their feelings.
Does the girl in the story stay in her relationship? Ultimately, the woman stays with the man physically. However, with the context in the story, she makes it seem like she is going to leave him. He doesn't want the baby, and on the other hand, she does. I think that the women realizes this, and decides that she is going to do what she wants to do. She shows a lot of sudden happiness at the end, which wasn't depicted throughout the story. Near the end of the story, the man is bringing the bags to the other side of the train station, and my interpretation of her happiness is the sense of him leaving. She was begging him to stop talking, but he wasn't. Then after he left, she was much more happier. I feel as though when he was gone, she realized how better it would be without him around; she would be able to worry and think about her and her unborn child. If the story were to continue, I think she wouldn't be with him anymore. When have I made an important choice to stay in a relationship or leave a relationship -- OR -- stay or leave a difficult situation? I was sitting with him for the last time in my car, and I think we both knew it. We both knew how each other felt, and yet we were still there, pretending to have something we didn't. It wasn't going to last for long. I loved him, and I still do, but not in that way anymore. I hugged him before he walked through the two metal doors for work. We looked into each others eyes, saying goodbye in our heads. Before I drove off, he said, "Your face is so soft today". I nodded in acknowledgement, and silently drove off, down the windy path. I was laughing in my head, thinking, "Who says that to someone"? As I drove past his building again, I looked through the large windows, hoping to catch one last glimpse of him. To my dismay, I saw nothing but racks full of oxygen tanks. Our relationship was going downhill for a while, and we couldn't do anything to fix it. We were no longer happy; yet, we still loved each other. Mutually, we decided together to break things off, since that's what was best for us.
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Brianna Costa
10/2/2017 11:43:50 am
Your interpretation of the story showed me something I never realized. I never thought of her happiness in that way and I appreciate learning more about it. Your story allowed me to visualize what was happening and I'm sorry things ended that way.
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Kira McFadden
10/2/2017 05:08:09 pm
I agree with your interpretation of the story in that I think she decided to stay with the man. Whether or not she truly respects him after seeing how he really is, is a whole different discussion.
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10/3/2017 05:19:53 am
I liked your interpretation of the man leaving and bringing the bags to the other side. I never considered it would show her happiness and I appreciate your thinking. I also liked how you started the story in a middle of a scene because it left a sense of wonder and I wanted to know more. Great job!
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