Hills Like White Elephants: Part Deux

http://www.holysmoke.org/fem/fem0420.htm

This is my context for Hills Like White Elephants.

In the 1920's, according to this piece, it is believed that one out of every four pregnancies ended in abortion. While abortions were illegal, they were all too common.

In fact, leading up to this time they weren't all that frowned upon either. Women thought of "quickening" as the beginning of life, therefore as long as the abortion happened earlier, nothing was lost.

It's weird for me to think about this, because it seems like our culture thinks of abortions as unpopular until the past few decades, since it became legal and the few years-to-a-decade prior.

After reading this, it seems to me that Hills Like White Elephants shows the conflict between "common and simple" and the emotion of a mother-to-be.