# John Collins — Short Fiction character guide

> John Collins in Short Fiction by Ernest Hemingway.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** John

**First appearance:** 0010-the-three-day-blow

## Snapshot

Jack Brennan's manager, a man who has handled the fighter for ten years and still can't get him to sleep or train straight.

## Who they are

John Collins shows up at the farm with Morgan and Steinfelt in tow, breezy and unbothered, telling everyone Jack has never been right and never will be. He's the one who's supposed to have the fighter ready, yet he's been off in Philadelphia while the reporters circled. His easy confidence against Jack's insomnia is the story's central friction: a manager who knows his man is finished and keeps collecting his cut anyway.

## In the story

### [Fifty Grand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/fifty-grand)

Jack's manager, who visits with Steinfelt and Morgan.

### [An Alpine Idyll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/an-alpine-idyll)

The narrator's companion on the skiing trip; tired and sleeps during the telling of the peasant's story.

### [Now I Lay Me](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/now-i-lay-me)

The narrator's orderly, who speaks about his family and worries about the narrator's insomnia.

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