The couple cannot stay at the train station forever, they are traveling and must make decisions on where to go.
Due to this pregnancy, there will be change in the couple’s lives, whether it be that the couple becomes parents or perhaps they come to resent each other over their decision to terminate the pregnancy. The train station is another symbol which represents the crossroads the couple has found themselves at. This symbolizes her deciding to have the abortion. The girl is taking back what she said about the hills looking like white elephants. Simple Botanical is widely known for supplying white. The alkaloid content of White Elephant is also higher than usual, especially for a white kratom strain. It is often described as being a blend of red, white, and green vein kratom in aroma and appearance.
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I just meant the colouring of their skin through the trees” (36-37). White Elephant is an unparalleled mitragyna strain according to many kratom enthusiasts. They don’t really look like white elephants. Then after some convincing by the American, she states, “They’re lovely hills. This is interpreted to mean that she wants to keep the baby. Before the man starts pressuring her to have the abortion, the girl states that she thinks the hills look like the white elephants. The phrase “white elephant” is also an idiom which Wikipedia reports is “for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth.” In the eyes of a struggling couple who are now dealing with a pregnancy, the unborn child can likely be seen as a “white elephant.” The white elephants are also referred to when the girl is going back and forth between deciding to have the abortion and keeping the baby. The white elephants referred to throughout the text symbolizes an unborn baby. The operation the American and the girl are discussing is an abortion. Although Hemingway does not forthright tell the reader what it is, he does use symbolism to help them figure it out. One of the biggest questions one will have after reading “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is what the operation is that the characters are discussing. I laud Hemingway on his use of symbolism here. Having this scenery looming in the background adds more weight to the dialogue because it puts their small conversation on a bigger scale. The beauty of the white hills represents life and is contrasted with the dead and barren country field, which symbolizes death. Their conversation, which will be elaborated upon in the following paragraphs, is over a matter of life and death. This quote describes the scenery, which symbolizes the conversation that the American and the girl are having. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry” (9-11). “The girl was looking off at the line of hills.
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