Narrator and point of view

The narrator of “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway is also a character in the short story and presents the events from his point of view. But, even though the short story is a first-person account, the narrator often leaves the impression of a first-person plural or even a third-person narration: “In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more.”; “We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital.” 

The first-person plural contributes to better emphasizing the idea of differences between groups and the soldiers’ isolation from society. The pronoun “we” represents the soldiers who are rejected and misunderstood by civilians.

The impression of a third-person account is mostly conveyed when the narrator depicts the setting or the ...