Uncle Ernie’s “The Killers”

Uncle Ernie’s “The Killers” is about 2 men who go into a diner and tie up the waiter and the cook, and wait for a man who goes in most days around 6 o’clock so they can shoot him for double-crossing a friend. Once Ole Anderson doesn’t show, the men leave, and one of the waiters who was tied up, went and told the man he was about to be killed. The man thought nothing of it, and didnt seem to care at all, and thats where Ernie ended the story at. This pertains to my aspect of modernism because throughout the entire short story, everyone in the resteraunt was in a state of confusion over what was really going on. On several occasions, the two men who were about to do the killing would ask the waiter, George, “what do you think were trying to do?” He would never know the answer, and that would add to the confusion of the story and the main characters. George, Sam, and Nick, the 3 workers were all psychologically affected during the hour period the 2 killers were at the resteraunt, and were in a state of confusion. Most of Ernie’s stories are psychologically affecting in a sense of confusion, and “The Killers” brings that out perfectly.