Title
Bulls and Bells: Their Toll on Robert Jordan
Document Type
Book Chapter
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.
Published in
Date
2016
Pages
192-213
COinS
Citation
Eby, Carl P. and Mark Cirino, eds. Hemingway’s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.