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  In “ Hills Like White Elephant” by Ernest Hemingway, we read about the interactions between a wife and a husband speaking about an operation. It becomes evident early on that the husband would like for the woman to get the operation done and the story doesn't specify the operation yet but it becomes evident that the woman does not want to the operation. It becomes evident that she becomes frustrated because the wife says to the husband please multiple times before telling him to stop talking because she gets frustrated. It becomes evident later that the husband says that he is okay with either outcomes and will allow her to either not do the operation or do the operation and gives her the ultimatum but it becomes clear early on in the story that he is biased and he is in fact trying to convince her to get the operation. Toward the middle of the story, the wife looks at the hills and compares them to white elephants as she starts acting childish which I think si...

  "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin is quite an interesting short story that can be extremely confusing if not critically analyzed. The story can be confusing because the main character Mrs. Mallard receives news of her husband's death, and her reaction is both sad and joyful which can be confusing to readers. She indicates that she felt abandonment following the news of her husband's death yet later in the story she had felt joy followed by her saying free three times. The author makes it clear that she did in fact love her husband but not all the time and the author mentioned that she loved her husband sometimes and that often she had not. The story makes it evident that there is some sort of questionable attributes to the relationship between Mrs. Millard and her husband and it's evident that Mrs. Millard feels both sad and joy from the news of her husband's death. The story also has an ironic twist because the story ends with her husb...