The third-person storyteller takes the fly-on-the-divider strategy to limits in "Hills Like White Elephants." We can see both the writer and the storyteller in Hemingway cooperating to build the story. It doesn't disclose to us what the characters are considering, just what they do, see, and in particular, what they state. Also, it just gives an absolute minimum of setting: the landscape, the climate (hot), and the train plans.
The way that the story is told in the past tense methods the storyteller is assembling it sometime later, from memory, as it were, and rendering it in emblematic terms, utilizing likeness and similitude.
His sense to go to war is not qoth murder but thought the fine sense of the law and when not to go to war is when an individual evildoer is done and said evildoer will be punished for said evildoers's actions
