Hard Decision Making In Hills Like White Elephants By Ernest Hemingway

In the story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, a man known as the American and his girlfriend are waiting for a train to Madrid. They are forced to make a very hard decision before the train arrives, on whether or not the girl should abort her pregnancy. The overall theme of hard choices are symbolized in different forms such as the setting. Hemingway uses the setting of the train station and the landscape that surrounds it, to help emphasize this overall theme of difficult decision making. Although Hemingway uses many symbols to emphasize the theme, the setting of the train station and the surrounding landscape gives a great visual of the difficult decision they have to make. The train station can symbolize this hard decision