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much time." Love and death here are always together, and they are paralleled with night and day. The night is devoted to Jordan and Maria’s love while the day to plan and accomplish the mission. Pilar reminds them not to waste time and warns of the unknown dangers that threaten to end their happiness when she tells them: "You have the night. But there is the day, too." This way Pilar urges them to spend as much time alone during the day as possible ("you could pick wild strawberries"). On the other hand, she is reminding Jordan of what must be carried out during the day - the blowing of the bridge, which is a contrast to the lovers’ feelings. Jordan often has to fight with his thoughts and, for example, his internal fight reveals itself in conversation with Pilar - he speaks to her of his duty but also admits his love for Maria. He seems to question whether the cause is worth losing Maria in death, this way revealing his concern about the sign that Pilar saw inReading the book it can be seen that the love between Maria and Jordan has many mystical or religious elements. Love not only does purify Maria of her past experiences, helps her to recover (she was raped), but also makes Robert Jordan believe in living for the moment:
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow ... there is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. (ibid, 201)
Just as Jordan has purified Maria with his love, Jordan's loneliness was eliminated by Maria’s love. “Maria’s rape is recalled as she and Jordon talk after their lovemaking, a past hurt healed and redeemed through their present intimacy” (Lee, 1983, 97) It explains why with perhaps only two more days to live, the love affair between Maria and Jordan developed so quickly.
The important theme that dwells through the rest of the novel is that Maria and Jordan is one person. Maria says that she would change for Jordan. Indeed, her understanding of love seems to be a total giving of oneself.
But if thou should ever wish to change I would be glad to change. I would be thee because I love thee so ...I love thee so and I must care well for thee. ... I’ll learn from Pilar what I should do to take care of a man well and those things I will do. (Hemingway, 1981, 202)
Maria has found herself in her love, and now this love is what she lives for and only dreams about while Jordan’s thoughts often go away about his concerns of his duty.
The use of animal symbol is a constant theme throughout the novel as, for example, in this scene Maria and Jordan see themselves as one animal, instead of one man:
Afterwards we will be as one animal of the forest
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