摘要：Hemingway’s world as widely agreed is a more disordered, a more violent, brutal mess, hard to find any sure scale of values, resulting from tremendous social upheaval and economic and political devastation in the post-war Western society. His short story “The Killers”, from Men Without Women (1927), exposed harshly such a kind of world; rather in it he successfully portrayed a young boy’s initiation into adulthood through hazardous circumstances.
