About Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants is written by Ernest Hemingway. The story is about a girl named Jig and an American man that are drinking alcohol while waiting for the train to come. While they are drinking their drinks they starts talking about the clouds and Jig thinks they look that white elephants. They try a new drink that is called Anis del Toro. The American man tells Jig that the operation is very simple and that it not an operation at all. After the operation they will be back to normally and live happy again. The American man continues to tell Jig that if she does not want to have the operation then she does not have to. Eventually the train comes and they get on.

From the very beginning of the story you would think the operation she must be having is an abortion. In the book they talk about the clouds looking like white elephants and in some cultures it means something about a baby. We can assume that the American man is older because he is called the man and Jig is called the girl. At the end of the story we do not know if she really does have the abortion or not but we all know that the American man wants the operation done.