The beginning is the setting of what Hemingway is describing to give the reader …show more content…
Then the girl starts to remark on how the hills look like white elephants, the American claims that he has never seen one. As they are discussing on the taste of their drinks, the American brings up an “awfully simple operation” you can tell how the couple is now talking to each other that this is not just an easy operation. Hemingway is subtly trying to hint to us that this was no ordinary operation, this operation was reflecting on the couple’s relationship and the way they are talking to each other. The American is trying to convince the girl that if she does this operation, which they can be happy again and everything will go back to the way it was before. The Girl wants to please him, and she knows that she has to choose between him, because he wants her to have an operation, or to not have it. Which leads me to figure out that this operation is an abortion of a baby, because that is one of couple’s most common problems. That The American is telling her to have the abortion so they can still do what they are doing now, which is traveling and probably doing fun things with each other. She tells him that she will have the operation only if he will still love her and they can live happy ever