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A 3 page paper which considers the similarities and differences between the female characters in The Chaser, Hills Like White Elephants, The Girls in their Summer Dresses and The Gift of the Magi, in terms of the way in which they are presented and their interaction with the other characters in the narratives. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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behaviour and their attitudes to others: however, there are also similarities. In three of the stories, for example, the main focus is on the dialogue between the central female character
and her boyfriend or husband: in the fourth (The Chaser) even though the female character never appears the story centres on a dialogue between two people and the subject of
the discussion is the unseen girlfriend, Diana. In Hills Like
White Elephants, which Meyers (2003) asserts is Hemingways most subtle piece of work, the woman is trapped in a difficult situation: reading between the lines, we gather that she is
pregnant and that her boyfriend is trying to persuade her to have an abortion which he glosses over as letting in the air. Meyers states that the white elephants which
are useless and unwanted objects is a reference to the baby, but it appears from the ironic comments which the woman makes and the way she reacts to the man
that perhaps it is he who is the unwanted object. It is certainly evident from her behaviour towards him that she sees him in a different light since they have
learned of the pregnancy, and that she is not particularly impressed with his perspective on the situation.
In The Girls in their Summer Dresses, the interaction between the two characters exemplifies the kind of horror which does not rely
on blood and gore in order to shock, but instead gradually builds into dreadful revelations regarding the feelings of the two characters. Although the dialogue begins with a comparatively innocent
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