Loyalist Attacks

I must know that bridge is gone. Not before , so it can be repaired if the attack is postponed .No .It must gone when the attack starts and I must know it is gone.” (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 2005,p.8) Anselmo has guided Jordan with his heavy two bags of explosives to a cave where he had met there the other guerrilla fighters .Pablo has soon shown his discomfort to Jordan’s arrival and his opposition to blow up the bridge saying” You cannot blow bridges close to where you live. You must live in one place and operate in another. I know my business. One who is alive , now , after a year , knows his business”, (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 2005,p.13)but pablo’s wife Pilar , a woman who is fiercely devoted to the Loyalist cause , has brushed

It is obvious that Jordan’s message to General Golz has been got lately to stop the attack as Jordan hears thudding explosions of the bombs that means the beginning of a Loyalist bombing attack. The bridge has been blown and Anselmo has been killed by a steel fragment from the bridge. On the designated location that has been decided previously, Jordan meets Maria , Pilar , Pablo and two other surviving gypsy. Pablo has brought with him extra horses after killing some of his men to enhance the chances for escape . Jordan’s horse has been shot on his attempt with the group to cross the road that leads to safety which is guarded by a fascist tank and Jordan now is too badly injured from the falling of the horse on his leg. Robert Jordan makes his farewell to Maria and has been left alone waiting for the fascists to come and lying against the pine needle floor of the forest beside his submachine gun. The novels ends with a paragraph that is similar to the optimistic situation that has been described on the opening paragraph of the novel “ Robert Jordan lay behind the tree , holding on to himself very carefully and delicately to keep his hands steady . He was waiting until the officer reached the sunlit place where the first trees of the pine forest joined the green slope of the meadow . He could feel his heart beating against the pine needle floor of the forest.” ( For

The protagonist in For Whom the Bell Tolls shows no serious commitment to life that makes him very unlike Jake Banes in The Sun Also Rises , and Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms and in addition he is shown rigid and dedicated man without cynical codes like Hemingway’s other heroes whom they have been appeared in one way or another with disillusionment and cynicism and even the love story between Jordan and Maria is different from that in A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises whereas Jordan’s love is sudden and spontaneous and as well as one important point should be also noticed that when Jordan , as the novel progresses, faces a conflict between his love to Maria and his commitment to a cause or to the importance of the individual , he decides to achieve his duty and insist to seek for a victory that will result in victory everywhere and in this respect William T. Moynihan finds that the novel centers on Jordan’s determination to achieve his duty asserting that “ For Whom the Bell Tolls is the study of a man going inexorably to his death for a purpose ….The dying Jordan determine fighting off unconsciousness – the final and unexpected obstacle to his purposeful death- with his crushed thigh , his martyr’s wound , epitomizes the “terrible beauty of Hemingway’s vision.” (Moynihan, 1971,