White elephants

When reading the peace "Hills like white elephants" the first thing that I looked at was the dialogue in the piece, this really was the main mode of story telling. I think it was a great choice to tell the story in the format of two people simply having a conversation, I felt that I knew what was happening on the surface because of the heavy amount of small talk but at the same time the tone of the characters gave you the feeling that there was a lot going on under the surface. The way that they spoke to one another was intriguing I wanted to read further to figure out what it was exactly going on between them that they were so reluctant to speak freely about it was an excellent hook for me. I felt like the title worked really well here as well, the phrase hills like white elephants is almost a symbol for the things unsaid between the characters the elephant in the room if you will. I think as well that the way the characters talk to each other is a large part of the story, you  can tell that the man really cares about the woman and wants whats best for her even if it means having to talk about a subject which she obviously does not wish to discuss. At the same time you can tell that she cares for him although she does tell him not to talk about her operation you can tell that she wants to be with him and ultimately does value the things that he has to say to her. Although the story doesn't resolve in the sense that we would like it to, we don't ever find out if she does get the operation, I think that we did get to see two people come closer together and resolve some issues that they perhaps have not talked about with each other for quite sometime and this is in its on sense a conclusion to their story.