Hills Like White Elephants Masculinity Analysis
In Ernest Hemingway story, Hills Like White Elephants the American act according to the rigid of what is the definition of masculinity. At the beginning, he illustrates a man full of knowledge and enough experiences to always have everything under control. Also he acts as a careless unmanly man when he addresses her to have an “simple operation” as if it were nothing to her or even to the baby his/herself. (Hemingway 71). While him being so convincing that the girl is going to have the “operation” they still have to decide whether to take the train to Barcelona where she would get the abort, or go all the other way to Madrid where is illegal to have an abortion. At that moment the girl starts looking for direction, and at the same time trying