• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 4 pages

Hills Like White Elephants is a 1927 short story by notable American author Ernest Hemingway. - AsNotedIn

The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went on to Madrid.Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

Places

• Catalonia, Spain Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains.
• Ebro River, Cantabria The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees.

Food

• Anisette Liqueur