Summary Of Hurry Kane

In the story, Hurry Kane, the narrator is a player that played on the team with Kane. They played for The Yankees, in New York City. The narrator tells his story from what he saw and what he was told, from the other players, on the team. The narrator of this story looks like he knows everything that is going on inside the team and outside of it and even shows us all the things that happened with Kane with his time in New York. Hurry Kane himself was from Yuma, Arizona. Arizona was not a state in the 1920s but was just a territory of the United States. There was not a lot of things to do there because it was in the middle of nowhere and there was only 100 people living in the little town. Deserts surround the little town of Yuma for hundreds
With a lot of practice, he made it to a Dallas Club. The team was located in Texas and played in the Texas League, not the American League. Kane played for Dallas a while before he got transferred to the New York Yankees. The team was located in New York City, one of the biggest cities in America, so it was a huge change for Hurry Kane. It came to him as a big surprise, because he grew up in a little town knowing absolutely nothing about how people live in cities. Dallas back then was not a huge city itself. So it was a little ironic that Kane ended up in New York because out of every other city in America, he picked to go to the biggest one. In the story the narrator describes Hurry Kane like this, "Standing six foot three in what was left of his stocking, he was wearing suit of Arizona store clothes that would have been a fair fit for Singer's youngest Midget and looked like he had pressed it with a tractor that had been parked on a river bottom" (466). These were the things that people said when Kane came to New York. A funny looking guy that has some kind of weird suit on him, that first doesn't fit him and looks more like rags then a
Kane didn't get it.
"No," he said. "It ain't nothing to do with a dining-room. A hurricane
Is kind of a storm. My last name is Kane, so Lefty called me Hurry Kane.
It's a kind of as storm." (469)

Bull makes a joke about Kane's size and his name. As we know Hurry Kane is six foot three and very big. It was known that Kane loved to eat and looked very big. Bull finds that thread and starts to pull on it. Bull picks that characteristics of Kane because back then there was not a lot of tall people and it was rare to see one standing six feet. So, Bull used that moment to make another joke about Kane and confuse him even more. Also, Bull makes fun of Kane's first name. It is Hurry, so Bull connects that with his size and said that he got that name because he always ran to eat. Kane's does not get the joke and gets confused. He starts to explain himself by talking about hurricanes and storms, gets even more puzzled. He did not understand that Bull was just making fun of him and actually knew what Kane was talking about. The narrator then told us that, "they kept it up for two hours, Kane trying to explain his nickname and Bull leading him on," (470). This proves to us that Bull did these things on purpose and wanted to embarrass Kane in front of