"Hills like White Elephants"

In class we discussed "Hills like White Elephants", yet another story that was very odd. It began with two characters at a train station drinking beer, this guy in the story is trying to talk the woman into getting an "operation”, which we came to conclude is an abortion in class. The woman throughout the story seems very worried whether to go through with the operation and if the man which I thought was her boyfriend. I also came to the conclusion she seems to be the man’s mistress because of the way the man did not want her to keep the baby. There is also a possibility since they like to travel a lot he didn’t want to bring a baby into the world. There are so many questions that the author did not answer and he left you hanging to decide for yourself. My thoughts on this story were choosing between life and fatality. The "girl” as they referred to her in the story was very squeamish in making a decision because the man in the story is very authoritative and controlling. The white hills are dark and have no life and the white elephants are full of life is what I felt they were trying to describe in the story. I would hope she chose the white elephants and chose life but we will never know due to the author leaving us to make the decision.