The story revolves around a conversation with an American man and a girl at a train station while waiting for their next train. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discuss an operation, which is inferred to be an abortion. The story describes a couple at a crisis point in their relationship. They struggle to communicate their opposite views on the direction their relationship should take. The story is about communication and ends without clear resolution, the reader will never know how or if they manage to fix their problem. Throughout the story, the man is knowledgeable, worldly, and always in control of himself and the situation. When he tells the girl he doesn’t care whether she has the operation, he maintains his cool. At first he avoids discussion of their problems, but when pressured, he simplifies the operation and pushes her to have it. He thinks about himself and fails to provide the sympathy and understanding she …show more content…
He tries to persuade the woman to get the abortion even though he tries to act like it’s her choice. He doesn’t seem to want to have the baby because he isn’t ready to settle down. The woman is confused about what she should do with the baby and though the conversation with the man she becomes annoyed by the guy when he keeps bringing up the abortion. The third-person narrator lets you see into all the characters. This point of view doesn’t tell us what the characters are thinking, only what they do, see, and what they say. Third person also provides little information about the scenery. The story is told in the past tense, which means the narrator is putting it together after the fact and not in the moment. Third Person is able to get inside the minds of multiple characters and delve deeper into emotions and relationships. This allows the reader to see how multiple characters react and understand certain