Hills like White Elephants

When reading the title “Hills like White Elephant”, I think of something that is rare, but big.  A hill that is big can be difficult to surmount.  The title itself speaks to the story.   There is something that the American man and the girl (Jig) cannot surmount.  As you read the conversation they are having, it seems like they are talking about an abortion without saying it outright. A decision was made, Jig did say she would go through with it, and the man keeps referring to it as a simple procedure.  So, it’s not the decision that is insurmountable.  As I read what Jig was saying, it seems like she feels one way one minute and then another way in the next sentence.  She banters back and forth, which leads me to ponder the possibility that the insurmountable hill is not that she’s having the abortion but that she perhaps feels guilty that she wants the abortion.  The setting takes place in Spain, where Catholicism is the prominent religion.  Abortion was not an option.  But Jig goes on to drink.  She starts off with a large glass of beer, then she wants to try "Anis de Toro" which is a liqueur.  I would think that if she really wanted the baby, she would not drink knowing she was pregnant.  Also, she says she’ll do it because she doesn’t care about herself, and at the end of the conversation she ends with that she is perfectly fine.  I think the conversation that she was having with the man, or not having with the man, is because she is in conflict about how she may be expected to feel as opposed to how she really feels.