How would you interpret this sentence? How would you interpret this sentence ‘I’ve never seen one’ in the antepenultimate passage? What had the man never seen? Did the man mean he had never seen any white elephant? Thank you. The excerpt is taken from the short story ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ written by Ernest Hemingway.The excerpt: “What should we drink?” the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. “It’s pretty hot,” the man said. “Let’s drink beer.” “Dos cervezas,” the man said into the curtain. “Big ones?” a woman asked from the doorway. “Yes. Two big ones.” The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put the felt pads and the beer glasses on the table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. “They look like white elephants,” she said. “I’ve never seen one,” the man drank his beer. “No, you wouldn’t have.” “I might have,” the man said. “Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.”