The Hawkline Monster

"Even now Miss Hawkline waited for them in that huge very cold yellow house... in Eastern Oregon... as they were picking up some traveling money in San Francisco's Chinatown by killing a Chinaman that a bunch of other Chinamen thought needed killing. He was a real tough Chinaman and they offered Greer and Cameron seventy-five dollars to kill him." This paragraph stood out to me for two reasons: One being how casually they talk about killing. Greer and Cameron act like it's just a minor inconvenience along the way that they have to kill this guy to get some money. The second thing that stood out to me in this paragraph was how "dumbed" down it was. I'm guessing that Brautigan wrote it this way to show the intelligence level of the two main characters and to make it more realistic to how they thought. I know that I didn't quote this section but I thought it was really strange how Brautigan wrote about the whore house. He described the "whores" as naive and somewhat dirty, but they were just little girls who presumably didn't know any better.