... manhood. Unlike James Carson, Liu Kanghi embodies the traditional qualities of masculinity. Liu's manhood becomes apparent when he symbolically protects Minnie from danger during their first encounter, warning, "If you go any further, lady, you will fall into the water!-(71) Minnie ignores his warnings, so with a "strong arm,"" Liu saves her from the potential danger. Minnie senses Liu's masculinity from ... to "the love feeling- evokes a sense of virginal emotion because if Liu had experienced love before, he probably wouldn't refer to it as the love feeling. Instead, he would simply a...

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... as the way they were before. She questions herself, but she knows that things will not be the same, because they both have learned stuff about each other as they go through this experience. This leaves her thinking whether or not this is the relationship she wants, and having the procedure may or may not affect the relationship. The procedure being ... , is not the life he wants. At one point with some sarcasm he makes her believe that if she doesn't want to go through with the procedure, she does not have to. In this decision of where they want to go, their sitting at a train station, w...

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... in determining what would be the best possible solution for the situation at hand. The American wants Jig to have an abortion but tells her she does not have to go through with it if she doesn't want to, though believes it would be for the best. The thought of being responsibility-free appeals to The American, as he will do ... that only wants what's best for him. Initially, he entirely avoids discussion of the conflict at hand, but later goes on to oversimplify the operation and persistently pushes Jig to go through with it; patronizing her and failing to provide the kind of support an...

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... upon their initial understanding. In "Hills Like White Elephants" there is a commonplace opinion that the implied meaning of the two characters' discussion is about whether the girl should go through with getting an abortion (Link 4). Through this understanding many people assume that every other symbol in the story relates to the abortion without going further into detail about what ... another. Grete becomes independent through her various actions such as helping her brother eat, clean his room, getting a job to replace Gregor's money supply, and eventually convincing their mother to ...

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... the "White Elephant'', as a negative object because he feels that it will only have a negative effect on his life rather than a positive. He knows that if Jig were to go through with pregnancy he would no longer be able to travel and drink, as they would before the pregnancy. He expresses to Jig that having the abortion would be the ... them, but as they become more indecisive they cannot seem to come to an agreement. Hemingway incorporates the setting of the story to emphasize whether or not the couple will go through with the abortion. "On this side there was no shade and no trees" (H...

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... meaning that dismisses reality negates what the very word nostalgia. Nostalgia conversely in its own way is the description of longing and sentimentality of the past, period or place. To go back or set it in time, a period that is remade in perfectness according to how the viewer first perceived it, and the structured and preciseness, or plainness in which the ... ...

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... the moral consequences of the procedure but is instead worried about the effect it will have on their relationship. In fact the main question they discuss is if everything will go back to "normal". Hemingway's purpose in withholding important information is to guide the reader to focus on the couple's argument and their dynamic, causing one to recognize the negative treatment ... ...

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... conflict arises. Further down stream begins an ill-lighted, overgrown swamp with what appears to be steep, slippery banks. After seeing this Nick decides that "he does not want to go down the stream any further" for certainty that the "fishing would be tragic" (Hemingway-"Big Two-Hearted ." 127) and proceeds home with only two trout. Knowing that Nick could not ... ...

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