Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants is about an American man and a girl that are in Barcelona. They are talking and drinking beer in a train station . At first I just thought they were casually talking and drinking and i did know that the girl was getting some kind of operation. In class we discussed that the girl was getting an abortion. I was caught off guard because that was the last thing I even expected to happen. We also discovered that there is an age difference between the man and the girl because thought the story the girl has a name which is Jig but is referred to as "girl" while the man is referred to as "the man". The man suggest that she should get the abortion but she travels on a train to leave. I think don't think she got the abortion because at first she seemed as if she were scared and then she lighten up about it and decided to keep her child. The man could of had a wife or something back in America but we don't i think that he did because even though the age difference why else wouldn't he have wanted to keep the baby? Since the class discussion I've understood the story a lot better and I actually liked it. I researched "White Elephant" and the definition was "for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth." That also lead me to the conclusion that she did not have the abortion.