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Hills Like White Elephants Jig Character Analysis

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The main character within the story “ Hills Like White Elephants” is Jig. Jig is bothered with her own thoughts because she is trying to ease her conscience. She struggles to accomplish this so she is unknowingly using her conscious and subconscious to process the difficult decision of whether she should go through with abortion. She is constantly debating the thought of abortion throughout the story When in reality, she knows that she is going to have the abortion, but she expresses the complete opposite feeling externally. She keeps her true ideas on abortion hidden well when talking to her boyfriend. An example of this is when she tells her boyfriend that the land surrounding them is so pretty and fertile. By saying that she is implying

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