Blog #5 - Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

I love the game "White Elephant." I am one of the few people I know who actually knows what this game involves and who plays it. I have always remembered playing it at Christmas time with my dad's side of the family. When I was little of course I didn't really understand the point of the game, I was just excited to get another present. As I got older I learned what the game really meant. I always thought of it as something funny, nothing serious. This short story took a different side to "white elephant." I never thought of it as something you don't want, pretty much against your will and opinion. The dialogue between the man and the girl, is similar to a conversation anyone might have about something they don't want or didn't plan. Mostly, asking themselves, what I should do about the situation and how did I get into this situation. In the case of the short story, it's a harder decision than just getting a weird present (we just give the present we got back the next year - ha). Sadly, in this case and many other cases that have gone through something they weren't expecting or didn't want, it isn't that easy. The world throws us white elephants all the time, these things are what make life interesting, we just have to figure out what we are going to do about them.