"Hills Like White Elephants" and "The Necklace"

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The paper discusses Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and the young woman Jig who stands, together with her lover, at a crossroads in her life, contemplating the effect an unwanted pregnancy would have on their relationship. In comparison, the paper explores the main characters of Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" who also find themselves at a crossroads, though for a different reason and with a contrasting outcome.

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"Both women are in charge of their own decisions, and both seem to have men in their lives that seemingly support what their decisions are; even they are not in agreement with them. "The Necklace" shows how such a decision to put on airs can truly cause such a negative outcome and the life of Mme. Loisel's life was ruined because of that one glorious night that she insisted upon. On the contrary, Jig takes control of her life in "Hills Like White Elephants", as well as her body, and decides that in spite of her lover's insistence that things can be wonderful again, she will not have the abortion as planned, but will instead keep the child."

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