sentences:  Like "The Killers", Bukowski's story of the same name has as its thematic trope Murder in a nihilistic universe.Unlike Hemingway, the killers actually accomplish their act in the time-frame of the story.Bukowski's authorial point of view in his version of "The Killers" also is influenced by Hemingway, as he it be seen as a logical outgrowth of the attitude expressed by Hemingway's fictional alter-ego Nick Adams at the end of the 1927 "Killers"