How is it appropriate for the subject the two are discussing in the story "Hills Like White Elephants"? it just seems difficult to do especially with...

When reading
this particular short story, one must take into consideration the time period in which it was
written. The story itself was published in 1927 and the time setting of the story would appear
to the be same.

At the time, abortion was an illegal operation and was
certainly not a word spoken in polite, or public, society. Since they cannot say the actual word
(and indeed because Hemingway would have taken a major risk had he printed it) the...