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"The Killers" (originally titled "The Matadors") was first published at the height of the Prohibition Era in 1927, a time when criminal activity was spreading throughout the United States, most notably in and around Chicago.
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"The Killers" (originally titled "The Matadors") was first published at the height of the Prohibition Era in 1927, a time when criminal activity was spreading throughout the United States, most notably in and around Chicago. In many of Hemingway's short stories of the 1920s the main character is Nick Adams who is playing a passive, but central, role as a reactor to the plot's events. Hemingway included the story in his 1927 collection Men Without Women, and it also appears in The Nick Adams Stories (1972). It begins when two men (Al and Max) enter a diner in a small town near Chicago and order dinner. It soon becomes plain that they are professional killers or so-called hit-men. They are here to kill Ole Andreson, a former prize-fighter, who has apparently crossed the mob. Although Ole usually eats his supper there at 6 o'clock, on this night the "Swede" as the...
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