review of for whom the bell tolls
To judge from the frequency with which biographies of him continue to appear nearly four decades after his death, Ernest Hemingway remains as fascinating a figure now as he was to his contemporaries. The reasons for this fascination have, of course, changed to some extent. The public perception of any writer undergoes an alteration after his or her death, when the facts of the private life--some of them perhaps deliberately concealed--begin to come to light. In his lifetime, Hemingway created and sold to a vast public, including millions who never read a word he had written, a myth of himself as an undisputed master in a wide variety of activities--soldier, fighter, hunter, literary genius, a man whose confidence and authority made him envied by men and adored by women. All of these things were to a greater or lesser degree true of Hemingway, although in most cases not nearly to the extent that they once appeared to be. And it has become clear that for him, as for the protagon!ists of his novels and stories, the true nature of heroism lay not in the effortless realization of superior gifts, but in the constant, consuming struggle to overcome crippling psychological defects and terror at the emptiness both in the larger world a
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Approximate Word count = 1885
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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