The Battler

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The Battler is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows a young drifter’s tense encounter with a mentally unstable ex-boxer beside a Midwestern railroad track.

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The Battler canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf short story ⓘ
author Ernest Hemingway ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
featuresCharacter Ad Francis ⓘ
Bugs ⓘ
featuresMotif boxing ⓘ
railroads ⓘ
firstPublicationYear 1925 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn In Our Time ⓘ
genre fiction ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ
hasApproximateWordCountCategory short story (under 10,000 words) ⓘ
hasCanonicalStatus frequently anthologized Hemingway story ⓘ
hasConflictType man vs. man ⓘ
man vs. self ⓘ
hasForm prose ⓘ
hasLiteraryCharacter Ad Francis ⓘ
Bugs ⓘ
Nick Adams ⓘ
hasPageCountRange short story length ⓘ
hasRightsStatus copyrighted work ⓘ
hasTone grim ⓘ
tense ⓘ
includedInCollectionEdition 1925 New York edition of In Our Time ⓘ
isPartOfSeries Nick Adams stories ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryMovement modernism ⓘ
mainCharacter Nick Adams ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person limited ⓘ
partOf In Our Time ⓘ
protagonistOccupationOrRole drifter ⓘ
publisher Boni & Liveright ⓘ
setting Midwestern United States ⓘ
railroad track ⓘ
theme alienation ⓘ
compassion ⓘ
masculinity ⓘ
mental illness ⓘ
violence ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century ⓘ

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In Our Time → hasPart → The Battler ⓘ
Nick Adams → appearsIn → The Battler ⓘ
Ad Francis → appearsIn → The Battler ⓘ