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...she is under distress over the decision of whether to have the abortion. The man in the story, The American, wants her to have the abortion so he can keep his free wheeling life style. The burden of the decision is further developed when he gets a drink at an isolated bar in the station. He observes that many people are “reasonably” waiting for the train, supposedly in contrast to what he sees as unreasonable behavior from jig. The characters underlying feelings about the decision are unclear until certain symbols are implicated in “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway; the location, the station and train, and the beverages develop the importance of the decision to the characters. The location is in the hills of Spain. Jig, the female character, keeps pointing out that the “hills look like white elephants”. The hills surrounding the station probably aren’t snowy, but she views the hills to be a pregnant woman’s belly and the statement of white elephants is showing us that she views them as a burden. This develops the readers feeling that she is under distress over the decision of whether to have the abortion. The man in the story, The American, wants her to have the abortion so he can keep his free wheeling life style. The burden of the d...