Hills Like White Elephant By Ernest Hemingway

The journey to address the couple’s white elephant is a long and tribulating path. “The Hills like White Elephants” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The narrator puts emphasis on the fact that the couple does not get along. This makes the audience feel uncomfortable which, in turn, shifts the focus from the problem at hand to their relationship struggles.
In "Hills like White Elephants," the narrator portrays the couple as one that is constantly fighting. As a result, their bickering is the focus of the beginning of the story. The narrator uses their position in third person omniscient to curate the squabble between the two characters. This is precisely what sets up the story for the climax, and what is to come later in the story. When the woman states the hills look like white elephants, the man responds saying he’s never seen one. But the woman says obviously, “No, you wouldn’t have”(Hemingway 115). Which, in turn creates a situation where they do not get along. The man comes back saying, “I might have, Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.”(Hemingway 115)
They are also portrayed as though they are polar opposite people with very different viewpoints. As a result, the readers get to simultaneously see into both characters worlds and understand why they react and feel the way they do. The man is very firm in believing it is better overall to terminate the child. He says, “We can have the world.”(Hemingway 117) The woman on the other hand, wants to keep the child and raise it. Throughout the story the man tries to pressure the woman into getting an abortion, however, he does so very