Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, cleverly and painfully captures the difficulty of talking about abortion. Ernest Hemingway is known for writing stories in which the unsaid is often suggested, and this is very evident in Hills Like White Elephants. In this story, two characters discuss an "operation," but neither comes out and says what the "operation" is. It is suggested in this story that they are talking about the woman having an …

…Tab/>This story shows symbolizations of issues with abortion and how a couple deals with it. In this story, two characters discuss an "operation," but neither comes out and says what the "operation" is. It is suggested in this story that they are talking about the woman having an abortion, but it is never really said. Almost every sentence and phrase in this story has some type of symbolization of pregnancy and fertility