Heroic Fatalism

After reading the article on heroic fatalism I definitely thought differently of Hemingway's character Ole Andreson in the short story "The Killers." Initially I never thougth of someone who was so briefly in the story to ultimately have the role of being a hero but the article helped with further incite into Ole Andreson. I liked the fact that Hemingway's inspiration for Ole Andreson was included in this piece of writing. It helped me imagine the type of trouble Andreson "got in wrong" and lead to a new understanding of why Andreson was so accepting of his own death. This particular piece was helpful too because as a reader you learn more about the character Nick Adams, and how his short story "The Killers" signaled a change in his life from adolescence to adulthood. Another interesting fact I learned was "The Killers," like many of Hemingway's stories was much more reliant on character development rather than a very detailed setting description. Personally I like having a specific setting, because I can try to imagine myself in that location, but that wasn't Hemingway's style.
Later the article had much more focus on the three films that have been based on "The Killers." Only being able to view the beginning of two of the films in class made me wonder where each plot line was going to end up because they were done so differently; the essay assisted in other explanations for all three films. The article, in addition, offered several explanations for lingering questions that I, as a reader, had after reading Hemingway's short story. For instance, even though you never actually see Max and Al kill Ole Andreson in Hemingway's version, it assumed; but in order to make a film Andreson's death had to be the starting point of a deeper story line. The third version, was the one I found least appealing. It was so different from Hemingway's story I didn't know why the film even bothered to have the title as "Ernest Hemingway's The Killers." However I learned from the article the importance of attaching the authors name to the title especially an author like Hemingway.