Hills Like White Elephants Literary Analysis

“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway which is about a couple conversing, consuming alcohol, and considering on an abortion while waiting for the next train. Although there is realistic discussion and the setting is in a semi-modern era, "Hills Like White Elephants" is an observation about how a fictional story can be addressed. This is where Modernism sets foot into the image. At first, the couple engages in an ordinary conversation and everything seems to go well between the two. But the man states to the woman,"It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig… It's not really an operation at all” (Hemingway 253). The stress discerned in this dialogue between the woman and man is our initial example of the sentiments