"Hills Like White Elephants" is one of the most difficult short stories I read recently because it is not straight-forward kind of story. The story “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemmingway, is about a young couple and the polemic issue of abortion. Though the word “abortion” is nowhere in the story, it is doubtlessly understood through Hemmingway’s powerful use of two literary elements: setting and symbolism.
At the beginning, the author describes the scent that hills are “long and white” also “there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun”. It sets the story’s tone which is quite intensive and implies the contrasts between two main characters. Throughout entire story, the author uses lots of dialog, however, what they said is not what they think. That’s interesting to find out what they really want to say throughout the entire storyline.
