Hills = Pregnancy

Did you get it? Well those luscious hills in Spain were not what the two characters were really talking about. Instead they were talking about her coming pregnancy! Yes, the lead female character was pregnant and the two characters were on their way to get her an abortion since the child was unplanned and they may even been unmarried. The problem is that she is having second thoughts and tries to communicate that through her dialog, but is unsuccessful with the rigid male character.

Anyways, it is a story that shows that often two characters can be talking about something and really mean something else. And when the writing is really good, they are talking about something, meaning something else and even conveying their change in belief and the entire spectrum of emotions when talking about something else. That is what Hemingway is amazing at in this story.