Hills Like White Elephants part 1

     The setting takes place in Spain, the American and his girlfriend sit at a bar outside of the trainstation. The narrator mentions that there are no trees or shade on the other side of the two tracks and that the sun is brightly shinning on both of them and the weather oustide is hot. This is a very interesting and clearly symbolic setting. For one, they are in a foreign land this means they are somewhere experiencing something that is out of the ordinary, a different language is spoken around them, but only the man knows what they are saying, this lets us know that the girl is confused or perhaps lost about something. Also they are waiting for the train to take them somewhere, in other words symbolizing their future, but there are TWO tracks. This might imply there are separate roads in their near future, they both want different things. I also felt somewhat when the narrator says that there are no trees on the other side and that the sun was shining on the tracks and that is was hot, I felt that they were being watched by God, being put on the spot by Him on the desicions that they were about to make and the directions those desicions would take them.
        The point of view of this story is third-person limited. Limited only to what he can see, but not to what they both feel or about the future that lies ahead of them, he is not omniscient. His attitude seems to favor more with the girl, making the reader sympathyze with her since she is so clueless, like how would the man know that the "operation" is just a simple procedure? He's a man for Christ sake! he will never have to endure that type of pressure of making that kind of desicion, and it seems like if he will tell the girl anything to just convince her, and makes it seem as if he really doesnt care if she goes through with it or not to make her feel better, but clearly he does.
       I would say Heminway's style is overtly masculine. Short, short sentences, plain, simple, and to the point. Just like a man, not explaining himself, not sugar coating anything like a woman might tend to do. I also feel that he leaves it up to the audeince to decide the outcome of his story, he allows us the readers to interpret.