Hills Like White Elephants: A Literary Analysis

I looked down at what seemed to be the largest and deepest body of water I had ever seen. The coach's voice was distant. “Jump! It’s not that deep. Nothing is going to happen to you.” My knees were shaking, but I knew that there were impatient children behind me waiting for their turn to jump. I closed my eyes and jumped into the pool. Before I knew it, my chin had hit the side of the pool, there was blood everywhere and I felt as if I was under a blanket of darkness. I screamed from the pain. My mom snatched me out of the pool and laid me down on a table. The place where I used to get swimming lessons always had tons of family around. I come from a family of many, many doctors so by the time I had sat down, there were multiple people …show more content…
We might think that the young girl is eager to please her older husband and wants to get “the operation” done. However, she is under a lot of pressure as she is in a foreign country with a language she does not speak. She is begging him by saying “would you please, please, please, please, please, please, please stop talking?” (644) for him to stop bringing up “the operation” she clearly does not want. The older man has perfectly timed where he is planning to discuss “the operation” with the young girl. The man keeps reassuring her that she did not have to go through with the operation, but she feels as if she does not have a choice. This is exactly how I felt as I stood on the edge of the pool edge as impatient children stood behind …show more content…
Ever since the day I hit my chin, I have always been scared of jumping into pools. I overcame this fear as I grew older and the memory slowly started to fade. This is like An-mei as she says “in two years’ time, my scar became pale and shiny and I had no memory of my mother” An-mei’s scar was related to my mother while my scar related to the swimming pool. Not only do I have an emotional scar, I also have a physical scar. The stitches left a scar on my chin that is never going to go away. If you were born as a woman, whether you know it or not, you would have been born into an unfair advantage. What you do with that unfair advantage is up to you. This is shown in “Woman As Other.” Beauvoir states that “women do not say we, except at some congress of feminists or similar of formal demonstration; men say women, and women use the same word in referring to themselves.” Meaning that women haven’t done much to change the way they are treated and just take it. Most women would disagree with this but it stands true according to this

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Hills Like White Elephants: A Literary Analysis

Hills Like White Elephants Literary Analysis Essay