Ernest Hemingway-Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway
Hills like White Elephants

The women brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put felt pads and the beer glasses on the table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry.
“They look like white elephants,” she said.
“I’ve never seen one,” the man drank his beer.

While reading this story, I found it very hard to link the importance of white elephants to the hills. I know that white elephants are unique and rare. The nature of having a baby could be compared to white elephants. The whole short story is basically a dialogue between a man and a girl who’s at a train station talking about whether or not they should keep the baby. In some way the train station represents the path there are going to take. But where do the hills and white elephants play a part? White elephants is a symbolism is the rareness of having a baby, and the nature of the baby maybe being in her womb, or maybe just everything surrounding the pregnancy. It’s unclear to me what decision they made of whether having the abortion or keeping the baby.