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"Hills Like White Elephants", written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes place in

Spain while a man and woman wait for a train. The story is set up as a dialogue between the two, in which the man is trying to convince the woman to do something she is hesitant in doing. Throughout the story, Hemingway uses metaphors to express the characters' opinions and feelings. "Hills Like White Elephants" displays the differences in the way a man and a woman view pregnancy and abortion.

The woman looks at pregnancy as a beautiful aspect of life. In the story the woman's pregnancy is implied through their conversation. She refers to the near by hills as elephants, "They look like white elephants" (170). She is comparing the hills to her own situation-- pregnancy. "They're lovely hills. They really don't look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees" (171). Just as the hills have their distinct beauty to......

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