In the two short stories we read “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Birth-mark”. Characters Jig and Georgiana do depict a uniform view of how people experience happiness that is to attain happiness by making their love ones happy.Both characters are willing to do anything,even though it is something they don’t enjoy doing, to please their love ones. In the “Hills Like White Elephants”, Jig does not want to have abortion from the facts that she keeps drinking to calm herself down and keeps asking if she really has to do it to make her “boyfriend” happy. And in the end of the story I believe that she would do it if it would make him happy.
In “The Birth-mark” Georgiana is afraid to do the experiment knowing that there is a danger, but she wants to make her husband happy.Since her husband despises the birth mark on her face and wants to get rid of it, Georgiana would take the risk.
Another similarity is both stories took place in the nineteen century when women didn’t have much power in society. Because women were inferior to the men, they were depended on the men both mentally and financially. So women wanted to please their husband and they would do whatever it takes to make the men happy. In both story, Jig and Georgiana care more about their love ones’ opinion than their own, and they are afraid to resist.
The difference between Jig’s happiness and Georgiana’s happiness is Jig’s happiness is attain when her “boyfriend”loves her. She is willing to get abortion because she believes that is the only way the her “boyfriend” would love her again and this is selfish love. Georgiana’s happiness is attain when her husband is happy. She doesn’t care if she is risking her live, Georgiana wants her husband to be happy and ask for no other return.
