The Clock
At the start of the story, George tells the killers that dinner won’t be available until six. He then looks at the clock and declares that it&#...A town named Summit, presumably outside of Chicago, sometime during autumn
Before talking about "The Killers," it’s a good idea to think about what was g...Third Person (Objective)
The narrator in "The Killers" doesn’t tell us anything we couldn’t get from being a fly on the wall. We don’t know w...Coming-of-Age, Drama, Fantasy meets Realism
If you’ve read Nick Adams’s character analysis, you’ve heard plenty by now about the interpretati...Matter-of-Fact, Neutral
"The Killers" is presented to us rather nakedly. Here’s what happens, judge for yourself. The author’s attitude towards the...Charged, Tight (as in concise, but yes, it’s also wicked tight)
As you’ve probably heard by now, Hemingway is famous for his tight, short prose. Bu...Since "The Killers" tells the story of two would-be hitmen, we’re not entirely surprised by the title. It’s worth taking a closer look, however, when we realize one key fact: the killer...
Initial Situation
Two guys walk into a bar…
OK, so it’s not a bar so much as a lunchroom, but you get th...
Act I
The scene with the killers in the lunchroom.
Act II
The scene between Ole and Nick in the boarding house.
- All right, we tried desperately to confirm that the The Killers (the band) took their name from Hemingway but…we couldn’t. So until one of you gets us Brandon Flowers’s ph...
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Not even a little bit. This is a world of manly men talking about their manly stuff or the lack there of. No room for women, no room for sex.Historical References
Andre Anderson (Ole Andreson’s character): Andre Anderson was an American heavyweight boxer in the decade leading up to Hemingway’s "The Killer...
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