In the fictional story of “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway; A man and a woman sit at a train station, ordering drinks and observing everything around them. But they have a problem to solve, the problem is that the woman is pregnant and the man wants her to abort. She doesn't want an abortion but is willing to do it if they want to be happy afterwards. The couple sit at the station waiting for their train and discuss the abortion which they disguise as a "simple operation". “It really is a terribly simple operation, Jig.” (325) I think they do this because at the time the story was published in 1927, abortion was not a common procedure, and talking about it would attract attention and people would look down on them . . Another thing that came to my mind while reading this story was that the story had to take place in a foreign country because in 1927 alcohol was illegal. They ordered drinks one after the other. So they were going against the norm in more ways than one, they were drinking alcohol and considering abortion. When discussing the decision to proceed with a simple operation, it is clear that the man really wants to be done with this operation because he just likes who they are and he does not want to change it and make things more complicated. The woman, on the other hand, seems to want a baby. "That's all we do, isn't it: look at things and try new drinks?"(324) I think she wants the baby so they can have something new in their relationship and moving forward. The man seems to be trying to make him do this simple operation using guilt. "Well," said the man, "if you don't want to, you don't have to do it. I wouldn't ask you to do it if you didn't want to. But I know it's perfectly simple." He keeps reassuring her that it's a simple, natural process and that he will always love her no matter what she decides. At the end of the story, she seems convinced that she will succeed in this simple operation. It must be taken into account that during their conversation they are drinking and that the consumption of alcohol modifies their judgment; so drinking while deciding whether to go through with it or not was not a good idea.