How Does Hemingway Use Montoya's Unhealthy As A Hero

Courageous and honorable, he lives by his own code. He does not follow random impulses. He represents who the main character strives to be. He is one of the many code heroes who appears in Ernest Hemingway’s writing. His name is Montoya. Just looking at him from afar, he appears to be a simple proprietor of the Hotel Montoya in Pamplona, Spain. However, there is a catch. Not just anyone can reside in his hotel; only people of passion, only aficionados can lodge in the Hotel Montoya. He has a vow to protect to cherish those who share his passion for bull-fighting. Hemingway uses Montoya as a vehicle to demonstrate the sacredness of being genuine in The Sun Also Rises because he has code principles that do not change throughout the book.
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Montoya practices different rituals in order to honor the “real” bull-fighters. Hemingway writes, “The photographs of bull-fighters Montoya had really believed in were framed. Photographs of bull-fighters who had been without aficion Montoya kept in a drawer of his desk … One day Montoya took them all out and dropped them in a waste-basket. He did not want them around” (136). In these sentences, Hemingway using Montoya’s actions to demonstrates a clear gap between the divine and the mortal, the flawed and the flawless, and the sacred and the evil. First, Montoya does not simply keep photos of pure toreros; instead, he frames them. Encircling the photos in a frame makes them bolder and bigger and, therefore, more important. Montoya clearly worships the bull-fighters because they are so genuine. Next, Hemingway clearly creates a contrast between the pure bull-fighters and the commercial bull-fighters when Montoya throws away the fake pictures. Like an exorcist removing an unwanted evil spirit, Montoya removes the unwanted photos from his desk. In this sense, the photos take on an evil connotation, so, therefore, the impure toreros also take on an evil connotation. In summary, the commercial bull-fighters, to Montoya, are evil and need to be rid of. Montoya also protects the pure from the corrupted,

Brett uses her corruptive sexual principles and sleeps with Romero (191) while Mike uses his poor money management principles and borrows money from Montoya (233). Because Brett and Mike disobey Montoya’s principles, Montoya starts to think of Jake as impure and excludes him from the secret society. Hemingway states, “He bowed and did not smile” (213). Unlike the openness of before, the channel of communication between Montoya and Jake is closed. Hemingway specifically mentions that Montoya did not smile because, again, the secret smile shows that being genuine is sacred. The difference is clearly that Jake is not a part of the aficionado society anymore. Even though Jake used to be an aficionado and used to be a good friend, Montoya rejects Jake’s flawed morals and keeps his principles the same. Hemingway also demonstrates Montoya’s rejection of Jake when he uses a short and objective sentence that blends in but has an important meaning: “We had lunch and paid the bill. Montoya did not come near us. One of the maids brought the bill. The car was outside” (232). Because Jake is no longer sacred in Montoya’s view, Montoya does not approach or acknowledge Jake anymore. Instead, Hemingway chooses maids to bring the bill because maids deal with messes. Montoya sends the maids to clean up the mess that Brett made