The Killers Characters

You have to admit: talking about Nick Adams in any sort of analytical way is a hugely intimidating endeavor. He’s featured in 24 of Hemingway’s stories and some think he’s really...

Ole Andreson is a bit of a let down. Seeing as two hitmen have come to town for the sole purposes of gunning him down, we sort of expected someone tough, intimidating, and dynamic. And instead, we...

Max and Al are hardened criminals. They’re members of organized crime who have come to Summit solely for the purposes of tracking down and shooting in cold blood an ex-prizefighter they’...

Poor George; he really gets the brunt of the killers’ abuse. They taunt him, harass about the dinner menu, call him a "boy," and of course, the eventual icing on the cake, threaten to blow hi...

Of the three men in the diner, Sam is the least disturbed by the encounter with the killers and the fact that Andreson will very soon be fighting in that big heavyweight ring in the sky. Fittingly,...