Hills Like White Elephants

              Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants " depicts an American and a girl are sating out the bar next the express station waiting for the next train to Madrid. The surrounding are the hills cross the valley likes white elephants. The conversation of the man and the girl focus on the talk of "a simple operation" which is abortion. The hot weather symbolic the tension between the American man and the girl. The man intentionally convince the girl to have an abortion. The whole conversation shows that a man is trying to demand a woman to do something that she does not really want to do. Thematically, the author demonstrates the truth of masculinity. Even though abortion is illegal and bad to woman's body system at that time, but man does not think about the side effect for woman.