point of view and elephants

Hills Like White Elephants blew my mind. While I was reading it I had no idea what was going on. My only thought was that they were planning on killing someone, which I guess was not that far off but I still did not see the abortion part of it until class. This was because of the way that it was written, the point of view was very confusing. However, I think the way he wrote it is more the way real life is. This may sound odd, but if you were to be eavesdropping/spying on the "couple" you would only get the dialogue and be just as confused as reading it, which I think is a neat way to write. This way of writing also makes it very hard to pick out a theme. Should the theme be about relationships, cultures, and responsibility, or all of the above? I feel like the couple should not have been together and therefor the theme should express something about that, but this point of view makes it hard to know what the couples history was. Maybe he was traveling and had a one-night stand and they weren’t really together so he didn’t want the baby and she did. But because of this weird/neat way of writing we may never know.