Hills like White Elephants
... In the story, “Hills like White Elephants, written by Hemingway, the presentation of the couple at a foreign train station that would leave for Madrid, fits this stereotype. ... “And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me? ... Her reference to the hills looking like white elephants, was one way she told him what she wanted to make her happy. The term “white elephant,” is the same as the metaphor “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. ... She tried to see into the future for both of them when she asked him this quote, “but if I do it, then it will be nice again and if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it? ... The only hope she had was to change how the man viewed the hills that looked like white elephants.