Is the following quote from "Hills Like White Elephants" situational or dramatic irony?‘It’s really [a] . . . simple operation, Jig,’ the...

The verbal irony in the short story "Hills Like White
Elephants" is in what they are discussing.  Initially, I had to read it several times
before I undeerstood that they were discussing
abortion.

Initially the two, man and women, seem just like
a nice couple on a trip, but as the story and their banter progresses we see that they
are discussing something that seems to be having a more significant impact on the female
than the male.

One statement in the story that the girl
makes is to the man after he says that he cares about her.  She demonstrates her side of
the relationship and the seriousness she feels the act of abortion and the decision will
be.

"Oh, yes. 
But I don't care about me.  And I'll do it and then I will be fine."
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The statement that you
listed indicates how irrelevant he sees the idea of an
abortion.

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"It’s really [a] . . .  simple operation, Jig,’
the man
said."

One
part that I found is when he tells her to come back in the shade so that she will feel
better, but in reality he is pressing her to do the very thing that will not make her
feel better.  He tells her that he will support whatever decision she makes, but there
is the underlying pressure for her to terminate her pregnancy.