Bulls and Bells: Their Toll on Robert Jordan

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Lawrence R. Broer

Hemingway s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World, pp.192-213

2016

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Title: Bulls and Bells: Their Toll on Robert Jordan
Author/Creator: Lawrence R. Broer
Publication Details: Hemingway s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World, pp.192-213
Annotation: Treatise on the influence of the Spanish countryside and culture on For Whom the Bell Tolls, focusing on the inwardly conflicted and self-doubting hero, Robert Jordan. Broer traces Jordan s evolving moral sense, identifying his inner struggles against killing as the novel s moral center. Closes with a discussion of the debilitating effects of the violence of the corrida on Hemingway s declining postwar morale.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015136290003691