Jordan supports the leftist cause-in opposition to the fascist right-but he is not completely convinced that the Republicans are morally superior to the fascists, nor that he has made the right choice by offering them his services as a volunteer. As a younger man, Jordan discarded the gun in a lake near his home, and though he has never openly discussed his feelings about his father’s death, he does feel that his father was a coward. Jordan comes from a troubled home: his father committed suicide with a gun belonging to his grandfather, a Civil War veteran. Trained in explosives detonation, Jordan takes pride in his work as a soldier, though he feels conflicted about his own support for the Republican cause and uncertain about his future after the war.
Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author’s previous works, For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels ever written.Robert Jordan is a Spanish professor from Montana and a volunteer for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In his portrayal of Jordan’s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of a guerilla leader’s last stand, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, is attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight” and one of the foremost classics of war literature.įor Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
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