The first time you read this story is like if you have not read it at all, may be you could not find the meaning of it or may be you did not notice it represent something more that the things written in the that paper. When you read it at first what you can understand from this story is that there is this American men and this girl, both are in a train station waiting, obviously, for a train. They both decide to drink beer and then the girl start talking about hills that look like white elephants. When the girl start talking about white elephant I though that the girl was already drunk or drugged and was hallucinating or something like that, but then I start thinking about how one beer could manage that effect. Later the men said to the girl about a simple operation, that she would be find that she only have to let the air enter, and that other people have done it and after that they were happy. The men said to the girl that she did not have to go through the operation if she did not wanted but I though that deep inside he wanted . At the end of the story they are both ready to board the train that arrive in five minutes.
The conclusion that you could have from this story is that the American was a child lover and the girl was with him because of the money and they were both chunky and alcoholics and that the American wanted to use the girl as donkey to make her swallow drug and the opened her to extract the drug after reaching their destination.
But when you read for a second time and you find some signs that serve of analogies for the true meaning of the story. That's when I realized that the white hills that resemble like white elephant could meant that she was pregnant. But what confirmed my hypothesis was when the men talked about an operation and that she just have to let it in the air. I thought of a type of abortion that is made by suctioning the baby in a type of vacuum. And the hole conflict of the story is that she was having second thoughts about aborting the baby and the American was more in to the abortion than her. The story have and open ending and we could not know what kind of decision she take.
By the way the storing was flowing I assume that she abort the baby after they took the train but I do not think that they live happy ever after.
The conclusion that you could have from this story is that the American was a child lover and the girl was with him because of the money and they were both chunky and alcoholics and that the American wanted to use the girl as donkey to make her swallow drug and the opened her to extract the drug after reaching their destination.
But when you read for a second time and you find some signs that serve of analogies for the true meaning of the story. That's when I realized that the white hills that resemble like white elephant could meant that she was pregnant. But what confirmed my hypothesis was when the men talked about an operation and that she just have to let it in the air. I thought of a type of abortion that is made by suctioning the baby in a type of vacuum. And the hole conflict of the story is that she was having second thoughts about aborting the baby and the American was more in to the abortion than her. The story have and open ending and we could not know what kind of decision she take.
By the way the storing was flowing I assume that she abort the baby after they took the train but I do not think that they live happy ever after.
