Hills Like White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, cleverly and painfully captures the difficulty of talking about abortion. Ernest Hemingway is known for writing stories in which the unsaid is often suggested, and this is very evident in Hills Like White Elephants. In this story, two characters discuss an "operation," but neither comes out and says what the "operation" is. It is suggested in this story that they are talking about the woman having an abortion, but it is never really said. Hemingway has a very simple style of writing and the intensity of the story comes through in…
