“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes place at a train station in Spain, where an American man and a girl, whom he calls Jig, drink beer while waiting for a train to Madrid. As the man and girl are enjoying their beers, the girl begins to express how the line of hills in the distance looks like white elephants.” They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees.” (553). Their conversation is boring and testy at first as they talk about their drinks, but once they begin talking about the situation, it soon becomes clear that the man is pressuring the girl into an unspecified operation. Though there was never any proof, their conversation strongly implies that the operation the man is talking about is abortion. The girl got bothered by this discussion and then asks the man to stop talking about it. The story ends with the man asking the girl if she feels better and the girl is......
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