text: After this character asks his father if dying is hard, his father replies, "I think it's pretty easy," and the narrator notes that this character "felt quite sure that he would never die.
full_question: After this character asks his father if dying is hard, his father replies, "I think it's pretty easy," and the narrator notes that this character "felt quite sure that he would never die." This character finds and releases a black grasshopper before contemplating whether he should fish in the deeper waters of a swamp. As a boy, he watches his father use a jack-knife to perform a Caesarean section on a woman whose husband cuts his own throat with a razor. In another appearance, this character warns a Swedish prizefighter named Ole Andreson about the title pair of hit men looking for him. For 10 points, name this recurring character who appears in "Indian Camp," "Big Two-Hearted River," "The Killers," and other stories by Ernest Hemingway.
first_sentence: After this character asks his father if dying is hard, his father replies, "I think it's pretty easy," and the narrator notes that this character "felt quite sure that he would never die.
raw_answer: Nick Adams [or Nick Adams]