The story, Hills Like White Elephants, is a story full of symbolism. This story is set in the early time of Spain in the 1920's. In the story there is a couple that must make a very improtant decision and there are two choices to the matter. They must both agree on the decision and Hemingway sets the story in the train station to make a point. You can either go one way or another. The train station is empty and soon later, it starts to get hot, as the pressure for the couple rises. After dicussing a few issues, the girl notices something from the station. She says, that the hills look like white elephants. White elephants a very uncommon and by the way they couple is going back and forth, you can tell that they are dicussing something very serious. She starts to compare the hills she calls white elephants to her unborn baby. She says they are uncommon.
The assumption that I would say they are arguing about is whether or not they should abort their baby. It seems as though the boy is trying to convince the girl that she can make the decision on what she wants to do. He says that he will go through with "it" if she wants to, but then he seems like the does not really want the baby because he says that "I don't care anything about it" (168).
At the end of the story, it seems that the couple has still not made a decision about what to do, so Hemingway leaves the end of the story open for the imagination on what the couple will do next.
Work Cited
Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "Hills Like White Elephants." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 166-69. Print.
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