Comparing Hills Like White Elephans by Ernest Hemingway...

Comparing Hills Like White Elephans by Ernest Hemingway and Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald At first glance it seems that the two short stories â€Å"Hills Like White Elephants† by Ernest Hemingway and â€Å"Babylon Revisited† by F. Scott Fitzgerald have absolutely nothing in common other than being written by two famous American authors in the 1920s. Although there is much contrast between the two works, when examined more closely, similarities seem to be extremely easy to pick out. Similarities are evident in the existence of superficiality†¦show more content†¦It is a relationship between an American man and a woman called Jig that is devoid of responsibility. This relationship is very similar to the past marriage of Charlie Wales, the protagonist in â€Å"Babylon Revisited.† Charlie used to be married to a woman named Helen during the stock market boom of the 1920s before she tragically died of a heart condition. Charlie and Helen were a very rich couple due to Charlie’s skilful playing of the stock market. The two led a lifestyle of dissipation mostly characterized by binge drinking. They were rich Americans in Europe who would live their entire lives in excess by dining at the most expensive restaurants in Paris nightly and drinking their lives away. The couple in â€Å"Hills Like White Elephants† was also a couple in Europe who would literally spend all their time drinking different kinds of alcohol and discussing the scenery that surrounded them. There was nothing real to their relationship. Both couples engaged in ostensibly pointless relationships that existed just out of convenience. A very clear similarity between the two stories was that both the American man and Charlie Wales had b een happy before the time of the story and this happiness had been brought to an abrupt halt by sudden events. The sudden event that brought an end to the American man’s happiness was the fact that he and Jig had become pregnant. This unexpected pregnancy seemed to cause a problem in their relationship because the American man