Analysis Of The Story 'Hills Like White Elephants'

We never know what our partner is really thinking or how they would react if a potential life changing event was to arise. In the story “Hills like White Elephants” we find a young man and woman in the middle of wanderlust, when a complication to their chosen lifestyle arises. This new obstacle has the ability to pull apart everything that these two hold dear, including one another. In life you sometimes find out who and what people really are once tribulation enters the frame. Human beings are complicated and the relationships they build absolutely reflect this fact.
The couple found in “Hills like White Elephants” seems to be living the dream. They are a seemingly educated pair traveling through Spain (pg. 416). Yet there is a sense of tension