In short, this story two men who looking for Swede who had been a heavyweight prizefighter to kill entered into a lunch-room and waited Swede, two men banded two people, the one was a cook on this shop, the others was a customer who happened to be there in this shop and put a towel tied in each of their mouths because two killers expected to enter a Swede, and so as not to enter other customer. But that day Swede wasn’t come, killers released two banded man, one of banded man, a customer one decided to teach the information for Swede to notice “two man wanted to try kill you”, went to Swede’s house. When a customer spoke the affair of Swede’s situation, Swede’s reacted as if everything knows about it, but he feels bad, slept every times all day recently. In finally a customer wasn’t know the detail of why a Swede was targeted by two killers but felt awful who in time would be killed by two killers and slept all day.
I was impressed the succession between a scene two killers spoke to the banded man toward the mirror and a scene Swede’s talked with customer toward the wall with feeling depression saying like “I just can’t make up my mind to go out.”.
参考
西川正身、“Modern American short stories1”、研究社、1966年
尾上政次・早川浩訳、『対訳ヘミングウェイ1』、南雲堂、1981年
