The most striking feature of this story is the way it is told. It is not a story in the classical sense with an introduction, a story development and an end, but we simply capture a little time in the lives of two people, as if it were just a piece of a film in which we have a lot to deduce that this story does not offer everything to the reader, we only see the surface of what is happening. Leave an open ending, readers can have their own ending and thus take part in the story while reading. The story told here is that of a woman and a man on their journey to a place where she can have an abortion. Everything in the story is linked to the idea of ​​fertility and sterility. This main argument can be seen from the title Hills Like White Elephants, where Hills refers to the shape of a pregnant woman's belly, and White Elephants is an idiom referring to useless or unwanted things. In this case the unwanted thing is the fetus that they will get rid of. At the beginning we find a narrator who describes in simple language the area in which it will take place. We can see that the story takes place in Spain, in the Ebro valley, and we also see that the train that the characters will take is an express train that comes from Barcelona and goes to Madrid, but we don't know exactly where they are or the date and the time it takes place, we don't even know if they actually take the train. The train here symbolizes change, movement but somehow they are afraid of it as the movement is not always forward but can also be backward in this case in their relationship. It is the “train of life”. Another thing we have to take into account is the fact that the train only stops for two minutes, a very short time. ... middle of paper ... settle down and start a family and this would be a change in their life since they move around a lot, which is why their suitcases are full of "labels from all the hotels where they had spent the nights" . There is another allusion when near the end of the story he says "we can have the world" and she replies "No, we can't. It's not ours anymore... And once they take it away from you, you don't get it back never again" here we see that she wants the child and knows that once she has the operation she won't be able to get him back. And finally in the last sentence he asks her if she feels better, but what he is actually asking her is if she has made a decision and he wants to know what she has decided and then she replies: "I feel good... There's nothing that's wrong with me. I feel good", if there's something wrong it's with the child, that's the problem he needs to solve.