The Killer Themes Essay

The Setting and Characters in The Killers

The locations where the story takes place is the lunchroom and the boarding house. Take a look at the names you find out in the first line that the diner is called "Henry?s lunchroom." Except George is the guy running the place. We never really know or find out anything about who Henry is or his life.. Then you take a look at the boarding house which is owned by Mrs. Hirsch but the landlady we meet is Mrs. Bell. Mr Hirsch is a lot like Henry in the fact that we don?t know or really find out in information about either one of them. This is a case of things not being what they seem, and of uncertainty. In this way, the setting helps the themes. Prohibition and organized crime in are really big at this time in Chicago. They are
In the 1920s, Al Capone is running the show within the mafia in Chicago, so he would have been the first mention of this city and of mob activities going on in the city. Ole Anderson is a kind of a let down. Seeing as two hitmen have come to town with the purposes of gunning him down and killing him. You sort of expected for there to be a fight or some resistance or something. And instead, we get a big man lying down on a bed, face turned to the wall waiting to die. Max and Al are big organized criminals. They?re members of organized crime who have come to Summit solely for the purposes of hunting down and shooting in cold blood an ex-prizefighter they?ve never even met. They?re carrying guns, they tie up and gag arguably the most likeable character in the story and they?re all around complete scum who kill for a paycheck. That being said they?re also comedians. George he really gets the brunt of the killers? abuse. They taunt him, harass him and call him a boy and of course the eventual icing on the cake, threaten to blow his brains out. And yet, George remains unfazed. He?s calm and pulled together. He?s the kind of guy you?d love to have around during a