It was easy to get into the story because Ernest Hemingway's description was detailed and realistic. When I read the story, I thought I had kown the man before because of Hemingway's graphic description.
I can totally understand the situation between the girl and the man and am her side definitely. First of all, the man is irresponsibe. He doesn't care about her even though he should know what to do for her. He is probably much older than the girl, who is still young, eighteen or so. Secondly, he is selfish. The girl is trying to persyade him or accept his thought; however, he doesn't listen to her. He was just trying to pretend to understand her feeling, but actually he has no mind to do what she wants to, which makes me upset. He doesn't know how important women's bodies are and becoming pregnant is. If a woman has an abortion, she will have a lot of risk to have some physical prablems and not to be pregnant any more. It is easy to have an abortion; yet women are wounded deeply instead .
I know I'm emortional a little much, but in my opinion, it is true..
Actually, Momoko, it's good that you have the courage of your convictions. Like you, I share an impression of the man as the bad guy of the story. A few other students have pointed out that one shouldn't necessarily condemn the man for wanting an abortion, but I think we can all agree that the man's manipulative tactics are vile and disgusting. Furthermore, for millennia, the normal code of honour for a man when he got a woman pregnant was to marry her. Contemporary sexual ethics have changed somewhat in recent years, but this is because of advances in the technology of birth control: condoms and morning-after pills, especially. In any case, Hemingway is not on the man's side; the narrator's description of the setting indicates this.
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Hey, lovely Momoko.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes tell my boyfriend that he should accept how stupid men are and men never understand what women want and feel. Isn't that true? haha.
hahaha so cute Momoko, to be enthusiastic like this in condenming a man inside a story!! Let's meet a nice and HANDSOME husband in future, not like the guy in the story!!! <3
ReplyDeleteNow, now, Hee-Jung; at least Chieu and I aren't stupid. ;-)
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