Ernest Hemingway Ambition

I believe that Ernest Hemingway admired a strong person with ambition. Throughout his work, he shows this many times by the characters in his stories being strong and standing up for themselves. A person with ambition is In the short story “The Killers”, two men named AJ and Max had came into Henry’s lunchroom to eat lunch. The men were very hostile with the people in the restaurant, including the waitress, the cook, and the customer attending. Georged served AJ and Max their food, but then was informed that they were “going to kill a Swede”, a “big Swede named Ole Andreson” (Hemingway 4). Ole Andreson was a consistent customer at Henry’s lunchroom, so the workers were very fond of him. They must’ve been terrified at the thought of a loyal customer being shot in their lunchroom, but they never showed it. AJ took Sam, the cook, and Nick back into the kitchen, and tied them up, with towels in their …show more content…
The American wife stood at the window looking out and saw this cat right under their window, crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not get dripped on. The American wife told her husband that she was “going down to get that kitty” (Hemingway 1). When the wife went downstairs, she opened the door and looked out. It was raining harder than it was before she had gotten down there. She stood at the door thinking that she could go along under the eaves, but a maid brought her an umbrella. This shows that the American wife was strong and had ambition because she didn’t care what the weather was like outside, she was getting that poor kitten. When she got out to the table, the kitten was gone, so she went back to her room. She continously explained to her husband, George, that she wanted a cat and she wanted it now. This shows that she is not going to give up on something she wants because she has