Hills Like White Elephants In “Hills Like White Elephants” the author begins with a description of the place where the story develops; a rural town in Spain, where the two main characters, a man and a girl, are seated at a restaurant drinking beer as they wait for a train. While seated in the table the girl notices distant hills on the other side of the town, and instantly says that they look like White …showed first 75 words of 679 total…

…showed last 75 words of 679 total…captures the difficulty of talking about, or rather around, abortion. The fact that neither person specifies what this "operation" is called aggravates their communication problem, as does the man's odd comments about the procedure "letting the air in”. The problems confronted by this couple, at the time somewhat unusual since abortion was considered illegal, are everyday discussion in today’s world, this story illustrates how times change and our society must change along with it.