Essay Example on The story of white elephants represents Choices

The man keeps on talking to the girl and still tries to get her to get one but she is nervous and asks what will happen after getting one The man tells her that she won t feel a thing and how getting one will end up solving all their problems The girl agrees that she will get one only if the man will still love her but then plot twist the man tells her to not get it because he loves her and he doesn t want her to do anything that she doesn t feel comfortable getting but she insists to get one because she doesn t want him to leave her While still waiting for the train the bartender brings more beers and while drinking them the man asks the girl if she feels ok she replies by saying yes she is fine but the man still keeps on insisting to keep on asking her if she is fine The reference to White Elephants comes from the beginning of the story It tells that while waiting for the train they both go get some beers from the bar and the girls looks off to the clouds near the hills while saying how they look like White Elephants to her The reason while this story is based on choices is because the girl is given choices about either getting an abortion or not The reason why I chose choices is because in the story it tells and shows the choices that the girl has to make in order to either save the relationship and save the relationship that she has with the man or having to keep the baby and dealing with an unhappy relationship This is why she decides to drink beer some studies show that people tend to drink beer in order to clear their mind from stressful situations In class we learned that in the old days that drinking or smoking causes birth defects to unborn babies that are still in the womb