Interpretations of “Hills Like White Elephants” The woman in the story realizes a lot about her husband in the story. He got her pregnant and they were deciding on having an abortion or not to have an abortion. Ernest Hemingway sort of hid this in his story. He does not say in his story that they are talking about an abortion and if the reader does not catch this the story does not make much …showed first 75 words of 381 total…

…showed last 75 words of 381 total…she has made up her mind that she is going to have the baby. She said “I feel fine, there is nothing wrong with me. I feel fine”(346). The overall thing that she realizes about her husband is that he does not want the baby and he wants her to have the abortion. She also realizes that he likes to change the subject when things do not go his way, like getting her a drink.