19. Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls (continued)

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246) Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of For Whom the Bell Tolls by reading the novel as a narrative of dispossession and repossession. She argues that the rape of Maria, which takes place in front of a barbershop mirror, enacts one type of disempowerment; the end of Robert Jordan s life represents another, but with the potential for redemption. She shows how Jordan vacillates between a have and a have not, depending on how ironically one unders