In the story, “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway gets the man to locate the diverse approaches employed in influencing Jig on getting the procedure done (abortion). Jigs boyfriend used alcohol to make the girl feel inattentive and unfocused in what she was thinking and saying; the man used the alcohol to his advantage to help him as a tool to manipulate the discussion with Jig. He then tried to mitigate the abortion procedure by saying he knows of plenty of people that have done it and were perfectly ok afterward, that it is such a smooth and comfortable process that there is nothing to for her to worry.
