The central conflict and its resolution in "To Build a Fire" is:
c. The man is in conflict with the extreme weather; the conflict ends when the man freezes to death.
Even though the man had conflicts with other characters in the short story, their conflicts arise from the central conflict of man needing to learn how to build a fire in order to keep warm amidst the extremely cold weather.
The story "Hills Like White Elephants" is mainly about D). decision,
right on Odyssey.
Answer:
The narrator claims that humans do a lot of that same stuff, too. Humans kill others (both people and animals), steal their stuff (just the people), and eat them (just the animals).
The theme of the story expressed in that action is the submission and lack of freedom of women in marriages in those times.
In Chopin's "<em>The Story of an Hour</em>", Louise Mallard feels free when knowing that her husband passed away because she felt imprisoned being married to him. Given the patriarchal society and the way women were seen in her times, she never could really live the way she wanted and had to submit to him.