Darbas:
it. That cannot be taken nor lost. (Hemingway, 1981, 500)It may seem that Jordan was too young to experience the things he although did went through. Jordan understood that he had been blest to have lived such life though rather short. His doubts of his inevitable death in the face of it faded away.
The last line of For Whom the Bell Tolls returns the reader to "the pine needle floor of the forest." The detail "his heart beating" sadly portray Jordan's last moments of life. The reader is left to imagine his death with a strong feeling that life is worth living and that there are causes worth dying for.
2.1 Maria’s and Jordan’s love
The contact between Maria and Jordan reinforces two themes concerning their love affair. One is that they experienced love at first sight, which was necessary both of them in wartime, and to make the plot, encompassing three days, more vivid.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before
The fact that both young people have lost their fathers (Jordan's father committed suicide, Maria’s father was killed by fascists) links their destinies in Maria's mind. Thus, her anticipations are fulfillled by this coincidence: "then you and me we are the same ... now I know why I have felt as I have". Jordan gives in to the impulses he has been denying all day: "he ran his hand over the top of her head. He had been wanting to do that all day and now he did it, he could feel his throat swelling." (ibid, 98)
Though Maria's love could have been described as a young girl's fancy, the following lines make it clear that Maria's love to Jordan will save her from the consequences of the horrors of her captivity.
He looked at her brown face and at the eyes that, since he had seen them, had never been as young as the rest of her face but that now were suddenly hungry and young and wanting. (ibid, 99)
According to Wylder, “Maria herself is a mixture of immaturity and world-weariness for she has experienced many of the horrors and few of the joys of life” (Wylder, 1969, 150).
Love is idealized in this novel while love as the balm can heal Maria's previous sexual trauma:
If we do everything together, the other maybe never will have been. (Hemingway, 1981, 105)
The reader can perceive that due to love Jordan has lost control and let himself into emotions, which is generally against the way code hero should behave. Therefore, one can see that this newfound love creates moral conflicts with Jordan's duty to fulfill his mission to blow the bridge at all costs.
The appearance of the planes also makes time a very important theme in For Whom the Bell Tolls as it reminds of the danger they are in. Pilar, for example, urges Jordan and Maria to make love because "there is not
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