The short story is placed on a railway station in Barcelona. A man referred to as “the American” and Jig, a girl around nineteen years old. They are sitting at a table outside to the station’s bar drinking beer. The surrounding of them is described as the valley of the Ebro River, with long white hills on each side and brown dusty ground between. Jig remarks that the hills look like white elephants, and the remark is not well received by the American. In summary, they are drinking at the bar pretending to talk about the drinks, but they are actually talking about her baby, if they should have an abortion or not. In the end of the story Jig says that she is fine, however her final statement is not believable because of the symbol surrounding
