Hills Like White Elephants (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Plot: Vignette
- Time of Work: About 1920
- Setting: A train station in rural Spain
- Principal Characters: An unnamed man, Jig
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Values, Future, Abortion, Separation
- Locales: Spain
The Story
An unnamed American man and a young woman, Jig, are waiting for the express train from Barcelona; they are on the terrace of a small station-bar and seem to be on their way to Madrid. The story consists entirely of a seemingly objective documentation of their words and actions during their forty-minute wait for the train. The surface events are very simple. The woman looks at the hills across the valley of the Ebro, suggests that they order a drink, tries to engage the man in light conversation, responds briefly and unhappily to his assertion that an operation that...
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