In the beginning of the story, the reader is presented with a conversation between two people that is very awkward. The dialogue they use is unusual for the average reader, especially the girl's reference to hills that look "like white elephants" (Hemmingway). Although this is a familiar phrase, for it is also the title, it is hard to discover its significance through the text. Their conversation is very bland and leaves the reader searching for a point. The only information the reader is able to concur is that the girl's attention is elsewhere, for she is constantly looking off into the distance.

As the story progresses, the reader finds that there is a conflict between the two main characters. Evidence is given that the girl will have an operation. The man feels that it will be simple, but the girl does not feel the same. The reader is left guessing what t

At the end of the text, I came to the conclusion that throughout the story the girl was trying to get the man to realize she did not want to get an abortion and neither did he. The last scene of the passage also sends the reader back to the earlier conversation between the two. The reader finds the significance in the hills that "look like white elephants" and the two very contradicting descriptions of the landscape. After referencing "white elephants" the reader finds that it was a slang term used to describe an unwanted gift that lacked tastefulness. The girl's "white elephant" was the abortion and the trip they were taking to have one performed. She did not want to go through with it, but wanted to please the man.

The end of a story always helps to improve the understanding of a text. Although the beginning of a story is necessary to connect the entire text, the end is the most important because it provides all the evidence needed to wrap the work up as a whole. The beginnings always have many different angles a reader could go from, but the end ties all the strings together.

he operation could be, but with no textual evidence, the possibilities are endless. However, when the reader arrives at the last scene of the story, as with many stories, the cloudiness begins t

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