Dimensions and Theme in The Killers

On the eve of the desperate economic crisis of the capitalistic world, the late 1920s is a tumultuous period in the U. S. A. with vehemence and horror imbue the whole nine underneath the sur brass section of the temp steadiness and prosperity. Among all the novels depicting the dark career hence, The Killers is unanimously considered as the trump come forth for its superb technic and arduous theme. The Killers offers a perfect example of a communicative that challenges and rewards the readers perception of its structure.The structure of a Heming expressive styles trading floor provoke usually be described, conventionally enough, with a counterbalance of scenes marked by a deepen in setting or by a change of characters. What is unconventional and so inscribes his fame as a modernist is that the scenes oft are juxtaposed with little transition and less(prenominal) logic to effect or explain their ecological succession or rationale as a outcome of his prose style with its syntax linking sentences and simple causes without conjunction and subordination.This is not to say that the structures of the stories lack form or material pattern, unaccompanied if they are coherent and connected in a sort of di human racepowersion which Hemingway said he learnt from cizannes paintings. In The Killers, there are totally terce main scenes Henrys lunch live, Hirschs rooming house, and again Henrys lunchroom. The premiere scene opens with dickens strangers entering Henrys lunchroom, where George is wait on prick Adams at the counter.The strangers, Al and Max, try unsuccessfully to arrangement from the dining compart ment menu, then settle for sandwiches, after which their small scold turns ugly. Al takes Sam the cook and mountain pass into the kitchen, gags and ties them up, and then he and Max reveal that they are waiting to kill the heavyweight prize fighter Ole Andreson when he comes to have dinner at six o clock. At last, Ole Andreson does not a rrive the killers allow for.In the second scene, prick goes to Hirschs rooming house to tell Ole most twain men waiting to kill him and offers to tell the police scarce Ole, lying on his bed and looking at the wall, says that he got in wrong there is slide fastener to do and he is through outpouring. In the ordinal scene, cut off comes back to Henrys lunchroom and tells Sam and George his fuck at Hirschs rooming house. Sam wont listen to it and goes to the kitchen. The story ends as Nick wonders what Ole did, and George says Double-crossed somebody. Thats what they kill them for. Im going to trace out of this town, Nick said. Yes, said George, Thats a good thing to do. I basint stand to cipher about him waiting in the room and knowing he is going to proceed it. Its too awful. Well, said George, youd better not think about it. In the first both scenes, the readers whitethorn get conf utilise with the arrangement and disappointedly stop to work out the theme, for de filthiness all the impend violence and seemingly inevitable bloodshed, nothing happens the killers do not kill and their victim still lies with his face to wall.The dimensions of the first 2 scenes seem to by slight direct the readers attention to the storys factual details the two killers Al and Max are indistinguishable, dressed desire twins or a vaudeville group their sandwich orders are interchanged they eat with their gloves on they forestall George bright boy and suggests him going to see a movie they get the lunchroom prepared for the killing the spade cook repeatedly complains and of George gives his careless remarks.However, no weigh what image the readers have of the two dimensions, it go away consider the obvious symmetry between them the action of the first scene is followed by the reaction of the second. And as the story moves on to the third dimension where the theme last set in, the readers, with a reminiscent view, can mannequin out that all the details which seem unconnected to the killing in the previous two dimensions, now, in re-perception, are closely knitted to serve the theme.The consequent takes place when three men are in Henrys lunchroom the cook Sam and the two waiters, George and Nick. Sam, from the very beginning, tries best to keep himself away from this killing when Nick wants to go to inform Andreson, he advices Nick to stay out of it, not to have anything to do with it at all. then Nick decides to go to Andreson in Hirschs rooming house, he says slim boys always know what they want to do, satirizing young men same(p) Nick know nothing about possible risk in the unsafe society.Finally, Nick returns and gives his account of Ole Andresons reaction, he wont even listen to it and bar himself in the kitchen. Having seen a lot of such violence of the society and got frightened by his own experience several minutes ago, Sam knows clearly the danger and darkness, and does not want any more of that. so he acts in a cowardly way to insure his own security. George also seems quite long-familiar with this sort of business he becomes very fishy of the two men when they mistake their own order and eat with their gloves on.As soon as the two killers mention Andreson, he knows their purpose of killing that boxer. Although he asks Nick to go to see Andreson, he does not care the whole thing much. When Nick asks him why the want to kill Andreson, he just chip in dismissive explanation double-crossed somebody, thats what they kill them for. For him, murdering is not a big event, since there are many them killed by they every day, he simply has already got used to it.Of the three men, Nick is the only one who shows undischarged concern to the attempted killing. Innocent enough, he, in spite of Sams warning, goes to inform the boxer. In Hirschs rooming house, the boxer, although knowing himself in danger, lies on his bed helplessly and does not want to run. He tells Nick There aint anything to do, Im through with all that running around, which gives Nick an even more terrible haze than that he is gagged and tied up by the two killers.So horrified Nick is, he decides to leave the town, I cant stand to think about him waiting in the room and knowing hes going to get it. It s too damned awful. Thus, at this stage, the readers can see that the theme that Hemingway wants to express is not only to expose the violence and turbulence of society at that time, but in a more arduous dimension, to reveal the shock and hurt of all these depravity and wickedness to the innocent souls like Nick who will bear the image of that doomed boxer into his maturity.Therefore, although the backup of the story is The Killers, the hero is actually the young man Nick, whose innocence in the setting of the cruelty of the killers, the cowardliness of the cook, the indifference of George and the despair of Ole Andreson, refracts the instability and violence of the society at that disordered time.In The Killers, Hemingway, with his geometric stick out of the scenes, presents a story of simple plot but profound meaning, debunking the unsteadiness and turbulence of the plain thriving society. Reading this story is just like viewing cizannes landscape paintings one has large room to perceive and appreciate its beauty and meaning in different dimensions.