The “awfully simple operation” is killing there child. in the phrase “they just let the air in” is clue to a way of abortion used around the same time the story was written. Throughout the entire story, the girl and the man both have there eyes on different things. The beer, the hills, the floor, never each other. It is not named because of the tension between the two. The girl is scarded about having the procedure because of morals, and having a happy life. but the man wants to continue there realationship