Bank Robberies

The other day in class when we discussed "Hills Like White Elephants", people had no idea what operation the story had been talking about. I thought I had figured it out, but I was completely wrong. It was a highly embarrassing experience, considering how right I thought I was. A lot of people in class agreed that the operation the couple had been talking about was abortion. Yeah...not what I thought. My bright idea was that the lady had robbed a bank. Both Beccas wasted no time in making fun of me. How could someone get bank robbery out of a talk about abortion? My argument with them would have had a lot more logic if the couple had been even more vague, but no, I was an idiot. I misread possibly the most important line in the entire short story. Instead of reading that the man was saying, "It's a simple operation, Jig", I saw "It's a simple operation," Jig said. Two totally different things. I ended up thinking that Jig was the man and the woman remained nameless. I just wanted to clear that up in case anyone in my class started to think I was a complete weirdo.