Killers
"The Killers" is one of
Hemingway's most anthologized and analyzed stories. The single most
influential critical essay on the story was written by Cleanth Brooks
and Robert Penn Warren for their short story anthology, Understanding
Fiction. Brooks and Warren argue that the story belongs to Nick, not Ole
or the gangsters, and that through his experiences with the killers,
Nick discovers evil. R. S. Crane argues against some of the claims made
by Brooks and Warren in his book The Idea of the Humanities and Other
Ideas Critical and Historical, writing that Nick is only an "impersonal
messenger . . . a utility character in Hemingway's rendering of an
action with which Nick has nothing essential to do." In his essay "Some
Questions About Hemingway's 'The Killers"' in Studies in Short Fiction,
Edward Stone notes many of the peculiarities of the story and contends
that it is Al and Max's
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