Hills Like White Elephants

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is brought up again and this time its in a different way, it is with Jig and how she might be changing her mind on if she wants to keep the baby after all, a quote showing this would be, “They’re lovely hills,” she said. “They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skins through the trees…” (pg.211)
The railroad tracks in this story run next to each other, but they never do meet. You could think of this as the relationship that Jig has with the American. A quote showing this is, “on this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun.” (pg.210). This tells us where the rails are located. You can compare this to Jig and the American because they never meet eye to eye with each other, just as the tracks never meet each other also. An example of Jig and the American not meeting eye to eye would be, “They look like white elephants” she said. “I’ve never seen one” the man drank his beer. “No, you ...

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