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This essay compares and contrasts the women in Chekhov's 'The Darling' and Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,' and demonstrates how the female protagonists must depend on their men for their lives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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with the Hemingway, the nature-loving American journalist and Chekhov, the broody Russian story teller. Even their writing styles are different; Hemingway relied on the terse, journalistic style of few words,
while Chekhov embraced flowery, overly descriptive language. Both, however, tend to regard women in the same way; to these two authors, women have been put on earth mainly to serve
their men. This paper compares the two female protagonists in stories written by Chekhov and Hemingway. Olenka in Chekhovs "The Darling" and
the unnamed woman in Hemingways "Hills Like White Elephants," have one thing in common, even though the stories take place miles apart. Both women have men in their lives who
are superior, dominant and selfish. Furthermore, both women exist to feed into that selfishness and to serve their men. From the very
beginning of "The Darling," Chekhov is not very complementary of Olenka, describing her as soft and cuddly, but with little personality of her own. "At the sight of her full
rosy cheeks, her soft white neck . .. and the kind na?ve smile . . . lady visitors could refrain from exclaiming . . . You darling!" (Chekhov, 2002).
It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, who seems to do nothing with her but complain
to her, yet her reaction is to listen to him silently and fall in love with him (Chekhov, 2002). Eventually, Kukin marries her and finds in her a ready-made slave,
as she would ". . . look after things in the Tivoli, to put down the accounts and pay the wages" (Chekhov, 2002). In addition, "what Kukin said about the
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