Comparing 'Hills Like White Elephants And Love'

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Can love blind someone’s eyes to the point where they can end up making a bad decision? In “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, “A&P” by John Updike and “Love” by Tim O’Brien they share a common psychologic difficulty of being in love with someone that does not love them back the same, and it leads them of making an absurd decision. Love can lead someone to do whatever the other person asks them to do the fact that they in love with them. Most people do not love the same as they get loved, or sometimes they just take us as a game. They can make us do stuff that is not right like hurt someone, do drugs or even things that can end up hurting us. In “Hills like White Elephants” there is a Spanish girl named Jig who meets an American …show more content…
That is what caught his attention to see how attractive Queenie was, “With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light. I mean, it was more than pretty” (Updike 2). There was nothing more beautiful for Sammy than Queenie, he made a bad decision to quit his job just for the fact that the manager from the store told Queenie and the girls that the store rule was to dress appropriately in order to enter the store. But Sammy decided to quit his job just to show off in front of the girls but especially for Queenie so maybe like that she could have some interest on him. But Sammy did all that for nothing because he ended up alone and he could not see them no more, “His face was dark gray and his back stiff, as if he’d just had and injection of iron, and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter” (Updike …show more content…
Jimmy Cross was a lieutenant and platoon leader that was obsessed with a girl named Martha a junior from College. Martha liked him in the beginning so she accepted to go out on a date with him to the movies, but Jimmy tried to do something brave on her like touching her knee so she did not go out with him for years after what had happened. “It was after seeing Bonnie and Clyde, he said, and on this same spot he’d almost picked her up and carried her to his room and tied her to the bed and put his hand on her knee and just held it there all night long” (O’Brien 2). Even though many years went by he still could not stop thinking about the stuff that he could do to Martha. Martha never felt comfortable having Jimmy doing stuff like that to her even if thousand years go by. For example, “Later, when he took her hand, there was no pressure in return, later still, when he told her he still loved her, she kept walking and didn’t answer and then after several minutes looked at her wristwatch and said it was getting late” (O’Brien 2). Jimmy still expects Martha to love him after all the actions he done towards her. A lot of people end up in an obsessed relationship. Where love makes them do the most wrong decisions just for someone that might not love them as they think, just like in the stories “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, “A&P” by John Updike and “Love” by Tim O’Brien. Everyone needs to analyze
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