Without insight into the American's true feelings and thoughts, the disconnect between the American and Jig is more obvious. Hemingway uses the word "look" in an attempt to bring readers into the true feelings of the characters, but each "look" is seemingly meaningless without the words and thoughts behind it. The American's words are the only testimony to his feelings about the situation in which he and Jig find themselves. He truly seems to believe that an abortion is no big deal when he states "it's really a terribly simple operation Jig, it's not an operation at all... I wouldn't do it if I didn't want it. But I know it's perfectly simple" (116) His complete lack of interest in Jig regarding the operation further shows how a difference in point of view changes the way readers' interpretation of love exists between two very similar people..