White Elephants have always been gifts that are unwanted. Hemingway in
this selection uses these white elephants to describe abortion through one
couples eyes. He uses different items and views that happen around this
couple to symbolically describe abortion. People who have white elephant
parties, wrap gifts that they do not want in their house anymore and give
them away as a gift for someone else. Jig's unborn child, in this story, is like
a white elephant. The child has not even had the chance to enter the world
and the child's father does not want it to. "The warm wind blew the bead
Some common words found in the essay are: It's It's, White Elephants, white elephants, hills white elephants, hills white, white elephant, unborn child, Hills White, story white elephant, describe abortion, child story, bead curtain, story white, Approximate Word count = 483 Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)