Jig and the Stream of Life in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”

When I was hanging on the street, I met a lot of people, but I could only listen to silence. I saw a couple entering restaurants, ordering, examining smartphones, and eating. What I see is that men and women are not living together, but next to each other. This is what I imagined when I read the Hemingway's "Elephant like a white elephant". A couple waiting for a train and sitting on a beer for drinking will start talking about Jig 's pregnancy and abortion options.

In the Ernest Hemingway 's "hilly areas like White Elephants", girls (jigs) and American men are discussing the jig, the possibility of abortion. The reader believes that Hemingway uses "hills" as a pregnant woman's abdomen and a "white elephant" as an unwanted gift. Jig decided not to abort this story. This is indicated by the choices they have to choose, their emotions about abortion, and the reaction of the ultimate Americans. For a short while they traveled, there were jigs and Americans at the station. That trip was not explained in the story, it was only a few minutes. According to Renner, like a train trip, they have two things to do. Pregnancy can be seen as well, which is the obstacle in their lives. They can have children or return to pre-pregnancy.

Hemingway provides readers with insight into stories through titles even before reading. The girls in the story mentioned the hills that can be seen from the station and explained them as an elephant that looks like white. Together with her partner, Jig is at the intersection of life. Because she is pregnant, she can not decide whether she chooses her life for her baby or chooses her life for abortion. Through the story, I always felt uncertainty about what she wanted to do. No matter what decision she makes, it will have a major impact on her childhood as a woman. While sitting at the station bar, the girl said, "The hill looks like a white elephant" (Hemingway). The distant hill resembles directly to the decision Jig must do. Critic Kenneth Johnston is documented: "The white elephant is a rare light gray seed of Asian elephant sanctified by Burma and Siam.