hills like white elephants

Hills Like White elephants is a short story by Ernest Hemmingway that is about an American traveler and his younger girlfriend in spain. The couple waits at the train station and talks about their future over some drinks. the girl seems upset and the american is trying to get her to feel better. it turns out that the couple is talking about abortion and it seems like the american really wants her to get one and she does not really want to. At the end they agree on what it is they are arguing about but it seems like the girl is just doing what the american wants because she feels pressured. The American probably wanted her to get the abortion because he probably has his own family back home and he cannot have something like this interfere his the rest of his life. He does not want to tell her this I guess because he tells her throughout the story that he wants her to do what she wants and he wants her to be happy and stuff.
Hills Like White Elephants was a particularly confusing short story the first time I read it in ENC1101. I was not sure what the couple was talking about for most of the story until I found out in class discussion that they were talking about getting an abortion. When I read it for the second time in LIT2020 last semester, I already knew the main points and was able to get a better understanding of the story.