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Themes within the "The Killers"

  • Failure of the parents of the Lost Generation to provide their children with the means to handle with the cruelness and meaninglessness of twentieth-century America.
  • Chaos is another theme in "The Killers." With all of the misrepresentations throughout the story this creates chaos with the reader, almost as if it is happening in another world.
  • Masculinity is the next theme. Hemingway is known for his manyly men in his stories, but in "The Killers" the two hit men are comical and clownish men. Hemingway at one point describes them as a vaudeville twins.
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