Hills Like White Elephants Literary Analysis

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is about a couple perceived to be not married sitting at a train station waiting to go to Madrid. They have a few beers and talk about and the issue of why they are traveling. The author never comes out and tells you directly, but uses symbols and wording that leads you to a conclusion of what’s going on in this couples life. They must choose between going through with an abortion, or not. Ernest makes sure that everything the couple does and says gives off meaning that is much deeper than the surface of it.
In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” there is an American man that we never find out his name. There is also his partner Jig. In the entire story Jig goes back and forth between