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The Killers

Introduction

In this story “the Killers”, the author Ernest Hemingway leaves the readers confused in many aspects. Many mix ups have been seen in the story all the way long that is of quite irrelevance. By reading this story the reader can only be looking for the main purpose of the author that He's trying to portray in this book. He has also discussed in this book about certain doors and there selection because these doors are referred as opportunities and then it's the individual's choice on the kind of life that they select. Basically thought that the whole point of the killers has been lost somewhere in the story, and that killing gas becomes a routine thing that is not of high importance.

Discussion

The story, the killers was thought to be revolving around Al and Max, that are the killers, but this is not the case. As already the readers are confused about the author's main focus on the story, there are many mix ups and the story has a different angle according to all the characters that are in the story. The first point where the confusion was created was the names of Al and Max because there character were switched on behalf of their religion as Al is a Jew and Max is a Catholic, the place where the confusion arises because in the story it shows that Al had certain fantasies of seducing young virgin girls of the convent where as Jews don't have Convents. As we move forward along the story there are many points and situation where confusion can be scene.

Al and Max

As the readers expect through the title of the story that it is meant to be about the killers, who were Al and Max, it takes place at a diner in Summit. The job of these two men was they were hired as killers, even though they had no personal hatreds between them and the person they are killing. It is just that they are being paid for getting the job done.

According to Sampson, based on there characters and duties as they were hired to kill the boxer name Ole Anderson and they used to easily perform the jobs, it showed that killing has become very easy and like getting any other job done killing was one of them that portrays ignorance in the individuals. The story also proves that things are not actually how they appear to be. This shows that judgments can't be made according to the visual character of the person or a thing. And at many places in the story this has been observed many times or it could be the reason that Hemingway tried showing or his main focus was to show the way the characters looked they were not like that. Or the purpose of this story could be showing different incidents that take place in life and how the individuals make choices but this leaves the readers with confusion (Mattes, ...