Ernest Hemingway’s short story ‘Hills like White Elephants’ depicts a couple, “the man” and “the girl”, casual conversation over drinks while awaiting the arrival of a train to Madrid. It is told primarily through dialogue between “the American and the girl with him”; formal names are not given, though the girl is later identified as “Jig.” 6th Ed. Hills like White Elephants, short story by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1927 in the periodical transition and later that year in the collection Men Without Women. The woman looks into the distance at … It's very hot. The hills of Spain, to the girl, are like white elephants in their bareness and round, protruding shape. The themes of this sparsely written vignette about an American couple waiting for a train in Spain are almost entirely implicit. An American man and a woman are at a train station in Spain. The story ends, as vaguely as it started, with the two about to embark on the train. Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" focuses on the dialogue between a man and a woman while they are waiting for a train. Martin’s, 2003. These hills like white elephants are the symbol of the child in the girl’s womb. “Hills Like White Elephant” by Ernest Hemingway is told mainly in the form of a conversation between the couple and even though the words are not actually said, it becomes obvious that the girl in the story is about to get an abortion. They sit at a table just outside the bar. The man thinks that it is a simple and quick operation to curb the annoyance just like the conversation about white elephants that he brushes aside without much effort. He emphasizes on how an American girl and Spanish speaking man are using alcohol to avoid having a real conversation about an operation, later understood to be an abortion, and her decision will eventually dictate the status of their relationship. Hills Like White Elephants Complete Story Posted By Lateef On August 29, 2007 @ 8:51 am In Uncategorized | 116 Comments [1] Click here to see the Literary Analysis for ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ Hills Like White Elephants By Ernest Hemingway. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway from Charters, Ann, Ed.The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. The story is largely devoid of plot and is notable for its use of irony, symbolism, and repetition. In Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants, the author reveals a state of depression and oppression setting. The … Hills Like White Elephants takes place in the early 1920s at a train station in the valley of the Ebro River, between Barcelona and Madrid, straddling dry, brown country and lush, verdant river valley. The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. The author never names the topic of their discussion but as their dialogue progresses; it becomes evident that Jig is pregnant. 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