`` Hills Like White Elephants `` By Ernest Hemingway And...

â€Å"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race,† as quoted by William E. Gladstone, supports ones thoughts that selfishness is what leads to most of our issues in the modern times. Currently, we are living in a generation that is filled with much greed and selfishness. However, one can say that selfishness is a trait that possess in all of us, but it’s the amount of selfishness that one can have to determine the type of person they are. For instance, most people who are selfishness tend to face many obstacles that life throws at them, some of which causes problems that can seem almost impossible to overcome. Many believe that just because a conflict can not be resolved sometimes they think that the best solution for them is by escaping them. However, running away from difficult situations is never the answer. In â€Å"Hills Like White Elephants† by Ernest Hemingway and â€Å"The Masque of the Red Death† by Edgar Allan Poe the character American Man and Prospero ran away meaning escaping from their problems in the short story. This ties in with masculinism and feminism because of the way they posses their characteristic traits and how they respond to their situation at the end. As the empowerment and the unceasing push for equal status for women has become widely popular and successful only in recent history. Women have stepped out of their traditional roles of the housewife, the mother and the complying doormat to more assertive natures. Many contentious issues surround women’s