Narrator and point of view

The short story “Now I Lay Me” by Ernest Hemingway is narrated from a first-person point of view by the main character, Nick Adams, who uses the first-person to describe himself and his circumstances.

The story follows the narrator’s perspective, including his thoughts and feelings, and details about his life. The narrative voice resembles a stream of consciousness, as the narrator seems to convey his thoughts as they appear:

(…) if you try to remember all the people you have ever known, going back to the earliest thing you remember – which was, with me, the attic of the house where I was born and my mother and father’s wedding-cake in a tin box hanging from one of the rafters , and, in the attic, jars of snakes and other specimens  (…) the alcohol sunken in the jars so the backs of some of the snakes and specimens were exposed and had turned white (…) (p. 277, ll. 27-34)

Although the narrator seems to address someone else b...