Throughout the course of each persons life, the journey for true love is taken. Many different paths are taken to find it, but when discovered, true love includes many hard decisions. In the short story, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, the main characters, Jig and the man, are faced with a large decision in their relationship. On their trip together toward Madrid, they stop at a junction and pause to reflect on their choices. The woman can either follow the mans hidden suggestions and abort their child, or in essence, end their relationship by having it. By tracing the woman's narrow and symbolic retaliations in their conversation, you can see that she is faced with a major decision. By describing the scenery, she describes her feeling for the child. The title, Hills Like White Elephants, is symbolism at its best with its hidden meaning. The hills that Jig admires in the story represent her pregnancy which is part of her decision. The White Elephants are a reference to fertility, so put together, the title equals out to be Jig herself. Faced with the decision if she has true love with the man, Jig must either work through this tough decision with him, or have him make the decision for her and realize he isn't her true love.
             Throughout the period at the junction, Jig expresses her want for the child through subtle hints. While discussing the beer, she says "all the things you've waited so long for" in reference to the pregnancy. She makes it clear that she would like to keep her child when she says this to the man. This next step is something that Jig has been waiting for and would like to do, while the man feels it would kill their relationship. When he is discussing the procedure with her, she doesn't speak much until she tries to defend the child with her statement, "we could have everything." Her admiration for the hi
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