Title
Robert Jordan: I Can Do No Other: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Summarizes the plot before moving into a brief discussion of Jordan’s values and heroism. Coker characterizes Jordan as a “liberal ironist” who cares about others simply because he does. Concludes that for Hemingway, true courage meant fighting even when the cause was unclear.
Published in
Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22
Date
2014
Pages
107-118
COinS
Citation
Coker, Christopher. “Robert Jordan: I Can Do No Other: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway.” In Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22, 107-18. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.