It's very hot. 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. Summary of Hills Like White Elephants. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway from Charters, Ann, Ed.The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. 6th Ed. The woman looks into the distance at … 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. These hills like white elephants are the symbol of the child in the girl’s womb. The child is like a white elephant, an unwanted, costly possession to the man. The themes of this sparsely written vignette about an American couple waiting for a train in Spain are almost entirely implicit. 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. Views: 529 Abortion in Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants The story “Hills Like White Elephants” is a conversation between a young woman `Jig’ and an American man waiting for a train at a station in Spain. The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. 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. An American man and a woman are at a train station in Spain. They order beer, as it will be forty minutes before their train comes. “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. 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. Boston: Bedford/St. In Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants, the author reveals a state of depression and oppression setting. The story is largely devoid of plot and is notable for its use of irony, symbolism, and repetition. The story ends, as vaguely as it started, with the two about to embark on the train. The hills of Spain, to the girl, are like white elephants in their bareness and round, protruding shape. 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. 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