"Hills Like White Elephants" Mike Prosser

The short story starts of in a train station in Spain. There is a man from America and a woman with him. They are at the train station and they are waiting for their train. They start drinking at a small bar at the train station. It seems like the man is trying to get the woman to get an abortion. For the most part, the man is fairly consistent in what he is saying. He states that an abortion is perfectly natural and healthy, and in actuality it is not. The woman seems to have doubts about if she wants to get the operation and the man repetitivley says that he does not want her to do anything she does not want to do. It is obvious he is simply saying what she wants to hear but the reality of the situation is he really wants her to get the abortion done. At first when he asked her about it, she was open to the conversation and when he kept asking her she sounded distant and turned off from him. At the end of the conversation, it seems like she has already made up her mind about the abortion and she just wants the man to leave him alone. I think the pressure from the situation has made both of them decide to start drinking and the man wants no part of the childs life if she decided to keep the baby.