In his biography of Hemingway, Kenneth S. Lynn, states that "The Killers" has obvious influences of Hemingway's firsthand knowledge of small-time criminals in Kansas City (Berman, 1999)
And finally, as novelist Robert Stone notes, he fell prey to " that fateful thing that destroys writers: He tried to be the hero of his own fiction. If you do that enough, all the weak seams in your personality are going to give way" (Cryer, 1999)
He thinks of the women he loved and the ones he never loved but lied and convinced them that he did. He thinks about all the stories he waited to write until he could write well enough to do them justice, now they will never be written (Hemingway 1961)
He thinks of the women he loved and the ones he never loved but lied and convinced them that he did. He thinks about all the stories he waited to write until he could write well enough to do them justice, now they will never be written (Hemingway 1961)
Harry is much like Hemingway, obsessed with death and reflective of the irony of life. "It might be said that to know the full meaning of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is to know Hemingway" (Ross, 1963)