The short story "Hills Like White Elephants" is a story I read before in ENC1101 over the summer and its almost as vague and confusing as the first time I read it. The characters in the story are an American man and girl and they are sitting at a train station waiting for their train while drinking beer and looking out at the hills (which resemble white elephants according to the girl). The setting is portrayed as warm and calming while the two people wait for their train staring out in the environment while a waitress brings them beer. Clues in the story reveal that the girl is most likely pregnant and the man wants her to get an abortion. Clues can be found in subtle descriptions throughout the story such as the description of the bags "There were labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights." This hints that they are a couple which taken into account along with the other parts of the story where the girl says how she wants to it to be like before and if he will love afterwards leads me to believe it is about abortion. Furthermore, the way the man says he is worried because of the current problem hints vaguely at her being pregrant and he not wanting to be a father. Also the fact that the man talks about the operation by saying, "They just let the air in and then it's all perfectly natural", further reinforces my belief that this about abortion because it sounds like the type of abortion used back in Hemingway's time.
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