Title
"With a Man There is a Difference": The Rejection of Female Mentoring in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Investigates Robert Jordan’s refusal to embrace female voices that conflict with his male perspective. Asserts that Jordan values masculine traits like courage and bravery over Maria and Pilar’s feminine embodiment of human attachment and commitment representing courage and compassion. Concludes that Jordan’s rejection of their mentoring in favor of the masculine voice of his grandfather leads to his death.
Published in
The Erotics of Instruction
Date
1997
Pages
127-146
COinS
Citation
Werlock, Abby H. P. “‘With a Man There is a Difference’: The Rejection of Female Mentoring in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.” In The Erotics of Instruction, edited by Regina Berreca and Deborah Denenholz Morse, 127-46. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.