<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed . (October 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway . It was first published in August 1927, in the literary magazine transition, then later in the 1927 short story collection Men Without Women . </P> <P> The story focuses on a conversation between an American man and a woman at a Spanish train station while waiting for a train to Madrid . The woman compares the nearby hills to white elephants . The pair indirectly discuss an "operation" that the man apparently wants the woman to have, which is implied to be an abortion . </P> <P> "They look like white elephants," she said . "I've never seen one," the man drank his beer . "No, you wouldn't have ." "I might have," the man said . "Just because you say I wouldn't have doesn't prove anything ." The girl looked at the bead curtain . "They've painted something on it," she said . "What does it say?" "Anis del Toro . It's a drink ." "Could we try it?" </P>

What is the operation in hills like white elephants