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
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