I see many people as I wander the streets, yet all I can hear is silence. I see couples enter a restaurant, order, check their smartphone, eat and I wonder why they don't look up, face each other and communicate sincerely. What I perceive are men and women who do not live together, but next to each other. This is exactly what I imagined when I read Hemingway's “The Hills Like White Elephants”. A couple waiting to catch a train and as they sit and drink a few beers, they start talking about Jig's pregnancy and the possibility of having an abortion. However, all I can hear is silence because they simply don't speak the same language. They both live in different worlds full of divergent ideologies and opinions. As a result, the words do not meet. The American, however, does everything in his power to convince Jig to have an abortion, which at first seems to succeed. But as the story develops, the divided and childlike Jig transforms into an independent woman, possessing an inner strength, determination and a mind of her own. So, I will argue that Jig will not miscarry and eventually leave American. Hemingway, considered a modernist writer, makes his readers work by implementing the well-known theory of omission, of which "Hills Like White Elephants" is a perfect example. As he states in Death in the Afternoon: 'If a prose writer knows enough about what he is writing about he can omit things that he and the reader know, [...].' (259). It seems that Hemingway assumed that the reader would know what was omitted, yet many features of “Hills Like White Elephants” have already been covered by various critics. At the end of the story the reader is forced to reveal the most... central part of the paper... Jig's ideology and Jig's personal development from girl to woman. She realizes that they are two opposites with incompatible lifestyles, so in the end the woman leaves her American lover and embraces (the flow of) life. Works Cited Flynn, Elizabeth. Gender and reading: essays on readers, texts and contexts. Johns Hopkins, 1986. 280-281.Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the afternoon. New York: Scribner, 1960. 259.Hemingway, Ernest. “Hills like white elephants”. Short stories. New York: Scribner, 1997. 251-255. Lanier, Doris. “The sweet and sour taste of absinthe in Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'.” Studies in Short Fiction, 1989. 279-288. Rankin, Paul. “Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'.” The Explicator, 2005. 234-237.Renner, Stanley. “Moving to the girls' side of 'Hills Like White Elephants'.” Hemingway's review 15.1, 1995. 27-41.