For Whom the Bell Tolls (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: 1937
- Setting: Spain
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Courage, 1930’s, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people, Gypsies, Bridges
- Locales: Spain
Characters Discussed
Robert Jordan, an American expatriate schoolteacher who has joined the Loyalist forces in Spain. Disillusioned with the world and dissatisfied with his own country, Jordan has come to Spain to fight and die, if necessary, for a cause he knows is vital and worthwhile: that of the native peasant free souls against the totalitarian cruelty of Francisco Franco and his Fascists. He is, however, aware of the contrast between his ideals and the realities he has found among narrow, self-important, selfish, bloodthirsty men capable of betrayal and cruelty as well as...
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