In “Hills like White Elephants” Hemingway uses symbols and dialogues to get the message of abortion across the readers. Hemingway gives a perspective of the male and women’s point of view in this subject matter. In the story the couple are trying to determine whether or not an abortion is the correct choice. The man has one point of view and the woman has another, and that is why they argue throughout the story. The man only think about his well being and not the women’s feeling. He tells her “I think it’s the best thing to do”. He tries confusing her, making his statements a bit contradicting.

The conflict itself in this story is whether or not she should go through the abortion. He knows he

Desiree then writes a letter to Madame Valmonde explaining to her what happened. Madame Valmonde urges her that she can go back to her house and to take her baby with her. Desiree shows that letter to Armand and he does not respond in no way. She decides to leave with her baby to never go back to him. He then decides to burn all of her possessions. He burns the baby’s cradle with all the furniture, the baby’s priceless clothes, and Desiree’s wedding dress. He then reads letters and when he got to the last one he found the remains of a letter from his mother to his father, “I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery”.

The man achieves for her to have an abortion. However, she does not feel very happy with the decision he has made based on the following “Then I’ll do it, because I don’t care about me”. After the procedure he asks her “Do you feel better?” She answers back not so happy, as if she regretted what just happened a few minutes ago “I feel fine, there’s nothing wrong with me.” Here we see that sometimes the love of a man and not wanting to lose him leads a woman into making a wrong decision for herself. The contrary happens in “Desiree’s Baby”.

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