This passage shows an example of Hemingway’s writing style in Tone – Suggesting emotions without explaining them
Explanation:
This passage has a deep and intense message of feelings even when they are not openly put on words, The sentences express sorrow and sadness with just a few words, it is not necessary for the characters to express either how sad they are with grim and dark words or to express how much sympathize with the other person's situation.
The foul odor that caused the narrator and Thompson to flee into the cold is the Limburger Cheese. Of course they thought it was the rotting corpse but the pine box did not contain a dead body, instead inside were a bunch of guns.