In Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Soldier's Home,” women are always seen as inferior to men. “All literature shows us the power of emotions. It is emotion, not reason, that motivates literary characters." - Duff Brenna. The emotions of both women in the stories show that they play a very insignificant role in the lives of men. This quote means that emotions are what makes the character interesting or allows him to make decisions, for example, in “Hills like White Elephants”; the girl had to make a difficult decision with abortion. The quote is nice because it is true that these emotions of women express the way Hemingway saw life from the female point of view. So, to put it plainly, women had a place in society that was not just “dictated” by male prejudice (while it certainly existed); it was dictated by the needs of society. Both of Hemingway's stories support the idea that these women did not have to question their roles. The short story "Soldier's Home" demonstrates that sometimes our emotions are what motivate us to make specific decisions. One wa...