"Heroic Fatalism" response

I remember learning about archetypes in a high school English class and this article defiantly jogged my memory. I think it's funny how quickly I forgot all about archetypes because it didn't even occur to me that Ole Anderson plays a hero in "The Killers." I didn't recognize Anderson as a hero because Anderson played an atypical hero which is obviously what sets Hemingway's story apart from the others. It was only after I read the first line of this article defining heroic fatalism that it became clear how it is heroic to accept one's death. I remember being so caught up in the confusion of why Anderson would be okay with dying that I came up with reasons like maybe he was sick of hiding or living with whatever he had done that he just decided to give up and accept his fate because death was better than living in fear or in regret. Then this article finally helped me think about this situation in a different light and consider how unnatural it is for a human to ignore the basic instinct of survival and willingly die. I also find it interesting that my first reaction to "The Killers" was a lack of fulfillment because Anderson didn't run after being tipped off. The article describes my lack of fulfillment as an understandable feeling because "many of Hemingway's short stories gains maximum dramatic impact from the minimum." This technique is exactly why I felt like the end was anticlimactic, and at the same time is exactly why this story gained such huge popularity. Going along with this idea of minimizing a large idea, I found it a creative parallel that other screenwriters incorporated a character that pitifully begs for life which is a stark contrast to a dignified acceptance of death in order to portray this mentality as even more heroic. While Hemingway did a good enough job of emphasizing heroic fatalism in such a simple, direct way, others decided to add to this idea which may have offered a little more fulfillment and made the big idea more clear for people like myself. I also found the mixed reviews to this idea of "fattening up Hemingway's lean storyline" to be interesting because many critics liked the original less is more concept. One thing I never knew about cinema is the level of respect screen writers have for adding an author's name to a movie. I feel like adding the author's name is going to attract readers who will be ultimately disappointed with a movie that only uses the author's theme instead of plot. This article opened my eyes to how thought provoking Hemingway's seemingly simple plot really is and made me appreciate the story much more than if I hadn't read this.