cause and effect about ernest hemingway "the killers"

Semansky provides a good example of those who read the killers as evidence of hemingway nihilism a pholosophy often attributed to the so called lost generation. what cause the characters in the killers to believe in nada? think about harris apeaks of when he writes of the war and it, more than chicago , as the backdrop for the story?

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