Word: andreson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bear thinking about is what is going to happen. A Hemingway character does not make things happen; things happen to him. Hemingway's people often seem like masochistic spectators of their own doom. In The Killers, Nick Adams rushes to the boardinghouse room of the ex-prizefighter Ole Andreson to warn him that two gangsters are in town to kill him. "There isn't anything I can do about it," says Ole Andreson. lying on his bed and turning his face fatalistically to the wall. There isn't anything any Hemingway character can do about his fate...