The story opens with the American man and the girl sitting outside a bar at a train station

near the Ebro

river in Spain. The two sit drinking beer and liquor as they wait for their train to Madrid. A Spanish
woman, a waitress, comes bringing the two beer .The man and girl have been traveling together as a
romantic couple, but at the moment the two are bickering. As the two sit drinking alcohol, it becomes
clear that the girl is pregnant and the man is encouraging her to get an abortion, though neither directly
names the issue they are discussing. The man argues that getting an abortion will restore their
relationship to what it was before. the girl comments on the barren but beautiful hills around them. As
the man continues to pursue the issue of the abortion however, the girl begs him to stop talking. The
man excuses himself to move his bags to the other side of the station. When he returns to their table at
the bar and asks if she feels better, she responds that she feels fine and that there’s nothing wrong.

Conflict : man in conflict with man/ self / society .

Protagonist : jig and the man

Antagonist : society

Characterization : round complex but static characters

Theme : To leave or to stay, to embrace parenthood or to reject it,to give up one’s own desires for the
desires of another .

Point of view : objective

Negar Safarypur

Zeynab Roshan