While Hills Like White Elephants: A Literary Analysis

While Hills Like White Elephants is only a short story based at a train station in Spain, it discusses insightful topics of conflict that can be found across the world. An interracial couple in a struggling relationship converses over many beers a life-changing decision that must be made before their train arrives. The plot pinpoints a popular topic of discussion in the world today, abortion. Readers have a difficult time distinguishing the thoughts of each character, mostly due to the less emotional point of view. Lastly, the setting creates the basis for the whole story by representing life and death; there “was no shade and no trees” (Hemingway 330) on one side of the station, and “on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along