In "Hills Like White Elephants" Jig uses sarcasm in her dialogue. What does this indicate about her as a person?

You are right to
indicate that in the early
part of this story and the conversation that we are privy to between
Jig and
her American partner, she uses sarcasm. Consider the following example. When
they
receive their beers, and Jig complains that it tastes like licorice, her
partner says that
everything tastes like licorice. Note how Jig
responds:

"Yes," said the girl.
"Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the
things you've waited so
long for, like absinthe."

In
response
to her partner telling her to stop this, she replies "I was being amused. I
was
having a fine time." This is of course one of the first indication that
something is
seriously wrong in this relationship, and that Jig is using
sarcasm to express both her anger
and also the intense distress that she
feels in her situation. She clearly knows and understands
that she faces a
choice between aborting her baby and saving her relationship to this man, and

keeping the baby but ending the relationship. The sarcasm is a natural response to the
intense
stress that she feels as a result of this
situation.