"Hills Like White Elephants" & "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

When i first read the hills like white elephants i didn't know exactly what was going on. i just thought it was two people drinking and talking waiting for a train. i knew that there was some sort of disagreement going on but i didn't understand what they were arguing about. i couldn't figure out what the story was really about. what i found out later was that it was about abortion. this made thing clearer. i then read it again and i realized that they were deciding on if she was going to get an abortion. i still didn't see how the story was about an abortion but i could tell that the man had more say in what was going to happen. i could tell this when she said "Then ill do it because i don't care about me", i felt that she was saying that it doesn't matter what she thinks because he is going to get his way in the end. she also said "I don't feel any way" "I just know things" i felt like she was saying that it didn't matter what she wants. she also gave up during the story, i believe that she gave up because at this point in history the man had all the authority in the relationship. she said "I realize" "cant we maybe stop talking.

A Good man is hard to find

i thought that this was a good story. i think almost everyone can relate to taking a road trip. or have parents or loved one who are paranoid about something. in this case running into the misfit. many people would consider the chances of running into the misfit and then continue on their way but the grandmother tell them to cancel their trip because of the misfit. and ironically they run into him and he kill the whole family. I couldn't really find any underling meaning in the story. i just thought that it was interesting how her grandmother tried to find "a good man" through out the story and she search ends up getting her killed. i think the author is saying that almost everyone has some bad in them leaving them short of being "a good man". i thought that the grandmother was the good in the story until the misfit started to kill off her family, and she sat their only concerned about her own life. the misfit put it best. "She would of been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." he was saying that she was trying to convince the misfit that she was a good person only to save her life and that she would have acted differently if she didn't feel her life was threatend.