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Hemingway Committed Suicide

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This passage, from Earnest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is a very important part of the novel because we can see an important subject that the characters, Hemingway, and his family dealt with. Suicide. The idea of suicide was always an alternate option throughout the book as the characters would contemplate suicide before allowing themselves to become caught by the enemy. Hemingway incorporated this subject into his writings to emphasize not only the devastating effects of war, but also a problem that he faced all his life. In the novel, Jordan's father is someone he looked down upon because he had committed suicide, Jordan himself thinks about committing suicide, Hemingway's brother and sister both committed suicide, and even Hemingway
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