Damn you, Hemingway

I am currently reading To Have and Have Not. In one of the early chapters Hemingway kills off a character I thought was going to be an important character throughout the story. The killing of the character is fairly abrupt and graphic, too. I was surprised to this see from Hemingway. To Have and Have Not is the 4th Hemingway novel I've read this year and it seems like this will be the darkest.