Darbas:
so close that neither one can tell that one of us is one and not the other. Can you feel my heart be your heart? (ibid, 292)Jordan's desire to live and start a real life with Maria is apparent when he whispers to her in English, thus symbolising his desire to remove himself and her from the reality around them:
I'd like to marry you, rabbit. I'm very proud of your family. (ibid, 374)
In chapter 37 Jordan seems to be already convinced that he has lived his whole life in three days. He has even formed a family: the guerrillas are his brothers, Maria is his wife. The description of their love is almost like a poem, for it is constructed of repeated words, particularly "now" and "one." The rhythm alludes to that of their bodies, as these words reveal Jordan's preoccupation with living in the moment and his celebration of their unity: "always now, always now, for now always one now,” (ibd, 410). Jordan feels that he has experiences everything in his life that he
2.2 Emphasis on the running out time
The war has made the time short, and Hemingway constantly emphasises this to justify the realism of his plot. He stresses how the revolution has changed the normal behaviour of people and illustrates it with Maria’s and Jordon’s sudden love. All is now, with the past and future rolled into now. Just as the seventy hours of Jordan’s life with the group becomes his whole life. And just as all is now, so all is one “one and one is one”” (Wylder, 1969, 155). Note the repetition of the very word "time" in Jordan's explanation:
It is because of the lack of time ...what we do not have is time ... we must live all our life in this time that there has been informality. What we do not have is time. Tomorrow we must fight. To me it is nothing. But for Maria and me it means that we must live all of our life in this time. (Hemingway, 1981, 320)
The lack of time, accompanied by the sounds of fighting in the background, creates a very tense mood. Hemingway pinpoints the threat of death to increase the dramatic tension. Agustin's humour reveals that the peasant band knows their chances of surviving are poor:
We have two weak elements. The gypsy and Pablo. But the band of Sordo is as much better than we are as we are better than goat manure. (ibid, 321)
Jordan does not look at looming death so lightly, but rather his thoughts portray the horror of fighting. For example, the description of the sound of the firing at El Sordo's is described very powerfully: “the precise, crackling, curling roll of automatic rifle fire." (ibid, 385) The contrast between Agustin's statement about the ability of El Sordo's band and the sound of their defeat increase the tension of the moment.
The final
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