Traditionally, women have always been known as the less dominant sex, and are very reliable for a dominant male figures in their lives. In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the townspeople all gather at a funeral, and share their experiences of the deceased, Emily Grierson, who is expressed as weak, and very reliable of her father. Similarly, in a “Hills Like White Elephants” expresses a woman named Jig getting manipulated and controlled by her lover into getting an abortion. Both in a “Hills of White Elephants” and in “A Rose for Emily” in two very different worlds, but both are examples of two woman who both are weak on their own decisions and rely on a male figure for self-reliance. In a “Rose for Emily”, The townspeople express …show more content…
When the girl asks, the man what should we drink he says, “Let’s drink beer”(Hemingway 563), without even acknowledgment of what she wants. Then continues to order two drinks in spanish, since she was unable to speak the language, and even adds on, “Two big ones”(Hemingway 563). This is the first sign that the girl, Jig, is easily manipulated by her male, she couldn’t even make her own decision of what drink she wanted. Even when she was given a chance to make her own decision, she replied with, “I don’t know”(Hemingway 564), and had the man make the decision for her. Then it is learned that the girl was pregnant, and planning on getting an abortion, which they called “the operation”. The man keeps subtly trying to control, and convince her to get the operation. “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig” (Hemingway 564), and then says “It’s not really an operation at all” (Hemingway 564). He continues to talk about it, and says “if you dont want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn't want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple”(Hemingway 565). She tries to be as acceptable as possible to her partner, in the beginning she thinks the hills look like white elephants, but then changes her mind later as she realizes her lover wasn’t in favor of that. In the end, it is uncertain that she gets the operation done. But it is realized, that she does as much as possible