Are Jig and the American married? Most readers seem to take it for granted that the couple in "Hills Like White Elephants" are unmarried. But what...

It
occurred to me that some people who followed this discussion assumed the couple were not married
because Hemingway calls her "the girl." But notice that there is a third character
involved in the little sketch. That is the woman who brings them drinks. Hemingway calls her
"the woman." He is trying to be completely objective in this story. We only know that
"the girl" has the nickname of Jig because the American calls her Jig. But the author
had to differentiate between the woman who waits on them and the woman with the American, so he
calls her "the girl" and thereby may be creating a false impression about her and
about their relationship. I suppose he might have called Jig "the young woman," but
how do we know the waitress isn't a young woman?