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This story, Hills Like White Elephants, is taken form the Objective (dramatic) point of view where the author is the narrator. The author doesn't enter the mind of the characters at any time. He allows us only to see the characters as we would in real life. This is sometimes called the dramatic point of view. The only way we, the reader, learn anything about them is through what they say about themselves. If the …

…read you can give it your own feeling and meaning. Tone is the narrator's predominate attitude toward the subject. The narrator will convey their attitude through the way that narrative devices are handled, including the choice of words. This narrator seems to have a subtle, none attitude to the situation. He or she seems in no way to be surprised but simply telling the story as it is seems. He doesn't add any real feeling.