In the “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway describes a story about a couple that is waiting at a train station for their train to arrive. The entire story is about a conversation between the man and women. They discuss what to drink, and most importantly they discuss the abortion, which is actually never mentioned in the story. The entire time it is only in subtext using the iceberg theory. I believe the train station symbolizes the change in coming and going. The landscape that she describes white, and pure makes me think of a newborn. The man is however very set on keeping things the way they are. He doesn’t want to complicate things with the addiction of a baby, and basically forces the women to agree. The name of the story even sounds like something you might read to a child. It sounds like it could be the name of a fairy tale. The women seems to have no major input on the situation, and seems like is trying to be agreeable.
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You're on to some important matters, here,as far as the imagery and symbolism, use of color, the title, etc (and don't forget, the hills--there shape--and the color go hand-in-hand, so to speak). As to Jig's being "agreeable," well--if you get into analyzing some of the image patterns and dialogue a bit more, you'll begin to see the real conflicts here.
See Katharine's blog, as well as my comments on other blogs, esp. Evgenia's and Alina's
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