The Role Of Abortion In Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants

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Abortion has always been a difficult topic to discuss. While some are open to discussing it, others are very secretive and uncomfortable about talking about their personal experience. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” brings abortion into a light that many choose to steer away from. This short story inspired other authors to discuss the topic and give the readers an idea of what many people go through in this situation. Russell Bank’s “Black Man and White Woman in a Dark Green Rowboat” and David Foster Wallace’s “Good People” were influenced by Hemingway to give a different point of view of the emotional roller coaster that is abortion. Both Hemingway and Banks gives their readers a deeper understanding of what it feels like to have someone take control of your decisions but being too distracted by love …show more content…
In “Hills Like White Elephants”, the man simply didn’t want a kid and convinced Jig that they would be happier without it. In “Black Man and White Woman in a Dark Rowboat” it was the woman and her mother who didn’t want the child probably because the father was black and they thought they were better than him. Finally, in “Good People”, Lane didn’t want to keep the baby because he was afraid of what God would do to them and he felt that if he told anyone what he did, both he and Sheri would have to get married and he didn’t want that because he didn’t love her. One common thing that all stories seemed to have done is only talking about the abortion itself, they never showed the actual process of the abortion. The time period of the three stories seemed to be either the same day of the abortion or the abortion was the next day. All three authors gave awareness to a sensitive topic and made amazing stories out of it and let the readers know how difficult this process really is and that they should be careful with their
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