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In the Middle od Nowhere
Some people are meant to fall in in love but not meant to be together.(500 days of summer) This is the hard and confusing reality for many people like Jin and the man in Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway. This is a short story about a couple that arrive to at a train station that is in the middle of two train rails. There, they sit outside the bar of the station, and while they are waiting for the train, they do what they are very used to do: drink. Eventually, they get into a discussion about something we cannot infer. Later, we realize that Jin is pregnant, and that the man is trying to persuade her to undergo the abortion and continue with their lifes lives as they have done so far. Nevertheless, Jin desires the opposite. The two train rails, the flies, and the alcoholic drinks are elements in this story that signal the end of their relation.
The two train rails undoubtedly represent Jin's and the man's way of thinking. Probably, this couple has been having trouble since Jin got pregnant, and clearly they are discussing arguing because there is not a consensus among between them. Jin and the man think very differently about the meaning of having a baby, and the fact that they do not express openly what they feel and think is what have got them in this middle, uncertain point. Each trail train rail represents one of them; however, they do not stick to want what they feel, think or want, and, for this reason, they are in the station, a temporal place where two different lifes lives meet for a moment. At last, they will follow their ideals and dreams, and that will take them to completely different places. Another element shown in this story is the flies that depict the status of the couple relationship.
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