The Themes of Abortion and Pregnancy in Hills Like White Elephants :: Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes interject in Spain while a man and fair sexhood wait for a train. The story is set up as a dialogue surrounded by the two, in which the man is trying to convince the woman to do something she is hesitant in doing. Through out the story, Hemingway uses metaphors to express the characters opinions and feelings. Hills Like White Elephants displays the differences in the way a man and a woman view motherhood and abortion. The woman looks at pregnancy as a sightly flavor of life. In the story the womans pregnancy is implied through their conversation. She refers to the come out by hills as elephants They look akin white elephants (464). She is comparing the hills to her receive situation, pregnancy. Theyre lovely hills. They really dont look like white elephants. I honest meant the coloring of their skin through the trees (465). nevertheless as the hills have their distinct beauty to her, she view s pregnancy in the aforesaid(prenominal) fashion making the reference to the hills having skinan enlarged mound forming transfer of what was once flat. The man views pregnancy just the opposite. When the girl is talking almost the white elephants and agrees that the man has never seen one, his response is, I might have, just because you say I havent doesnt prove anything (464). This shows the protective nature of the man, and when the woman implies the he is unable to differentiate between what is beautiful and what is not. Another issue that is discussed in this story is abortion and two oppose views. When the conversation turns from the hills to the operation one is able to comprehend the mentality of the woman. whence what willing we do afterwards? (465) shows the woman is concerned about what will occur after the operation. And if I do it you will be intellectual and things will be like they were and you will love me (465). Here, the woman implies she wants the reassuran ce that he will still be there after the operation, because an abortion places an stirred strain on the on the woman. Throughout the story it is evident that the woman is not sure if she wants to have the abortionshown in her hesitation to agree. The woman feels that people gain freedom through experiences. And we could have all of this, and each day we make it more impossible (466).