"Setting is Essential" Ernest Hemingway uses the setting of Hills Like White Elephants to develop his argument.

The short story "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a story about a man and a girl, Jig, who are going on a trip. The woman is going there to have an operation. The author does not tell us specifics about the procedure. The story looks at a conversation taking place between the couple. There is some sort of conflict throughout this scene that Hemingway presents to us. The woman does not want …

…significant because it reveals to us what the couple finally agrees on doing. Determining which side of the hill is the barren or fertile side is vital since in the end, that is the only way we can predict if the woman in fact has her child. This piece by Hemingway is not one to be read only once. A person must read this story several times until every detail about the setting becomes clear.