Hills Like White Elephants

This story was quite interesting. At first, i had a difficult time understanding exactly what it was about. The boyfriend wants his girlfriend to have an abortion. It seems like gender roles play a big role here as well, where the man is telling the woman what to do instead of it being a topic of discussion where they both have a say. I think that he forces his will on her and doesn't really let her make a decision.

I found Hemmingway's use of language to be interesting as well. expressing good things and bad things with images of nature- dark being something bad, and trees and light; one side of the track as opposed to the other side of the track. he used other words to explain simplistic ideas, which happened to be confusing to me the first time i read. once i read it again, i found his writing to be more poetic and symbolic and really nice.