The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is about a man trying to convince his girlfriend to have an abortion. The couple sit at a train station waiting for their trip to Barcelona and look out at the landscape – the line of hills "like white elephants", as the young girl, Jig, remarks. They sit and drink and try to keep the conversation light and have fun. However, as the story progresses, the cause of their underlying tension surfaces. From the beginning of the story, the female protagonist, Jig, seems like the kind of woman who allows a man to make her decisions for her. The first line of conversation in the story is the girl asking, “What should we drink?” and the man orders for both of them. Later, she sees another drink and asks his permission to try it. She then debates whether the drink would be good with water or not, and the two go back and forth briefly until he decides for her, saying, "Yes, with water." These things begin to show her submissive nature and a regular pattern in which the man makes decisions for her....