Ok Hemingway’s “Hills like white elephants”, was extremely confusing. I know there are 2 main characters, an American man, and a younger girl, ho are dating or in some kind of relationship together. They are in Barcelona i believe headed toward Madrid, Spain. They are waiting for their train at the station and decided to have a beer. Then after the beer they want to try a different drink. The girl is sitting at the station looking at the hills on the other side of the tracks. From reading the story, she was apparently pregnant and he wanted her to have an abortion. She was too keen on this idea and felt uneasy about it. Also from what i got out of the story, she thought that the clouds resting on top of the hills looked like white elephants and she wanted to go across the tracks and see them, because she had never seen a white elephant before. When I think of white elephants I think about the gift exchange at like a Christmas party where people buy gag gifts and et stuck with worthless gifts they will ever use. I don’t really know why they kept asking each other if they wanted to, or telling each other one cares and the other one doesn't and all that stuff. I think i got the gist of the story though but it was verrrrry confusing.
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