Hills Like White Elephants

First reading, honestly and genuinely confused as to what was happening between the couple. I could read the tension building and the fact that this is something they've talked about a great deal. I also wished I was there to try the Anis del Toro. Then when I came back to it I wondered what this operation was they were speaking of. Why go to another country for it? Was the woman not American also? She had to have been because she didn't speak spanish. At first I thought this 'simple' operation was a breast enlargement. You know because he said "Let the air in" and when I was younger I thought that was how women got bigger breasts all of a sudden. Didn't think there was something in it. BUt then I thought, no. She doesn't want this operation. It's not for her. It's not for her and it is for him. What can one sex do and not the other? Have babies. And that's why they were in a Spanish speaking country because probably at the time, abortions were illegal in the US. Aw, I hope she doesn't die.