Hills Like White Elephants is a short story I read recently by yours truly, Ernest Hemminway. It’s quite abrupt and perplexing at first and after my initial readings of the story, I wasn’t quite sure of what to make of it.

The story is mainly depicting a man and a woman having a few drinks while waiting for a train to travel to Madrid, Spain. The man, who is known as “the American” and the woman, who is known as Jig, start casually talking over their drinks. The conversation soon heads to a more controversial topic of “an operation.” It’s not directly stated, but can be implied through the story’s dialogue that the man is trying to convince Jig that she should have an abortion.

Strange in nature, but right down my alley of blunt, atypcial short stories.