This is Hemingway's longest novel, but the length of the whole book is limited to three days (from a Saturday afternoon at the end of May to Tuesday morning in 1937), and it is extremely compact. At that time, the capital had turned the corner because the government repelled the Italian invaders near Guadalajara in the northeast of the capital in mid-March. General Goelz was preparing to attack the rebel mountain defense line in Guadalama Mountain area in the northwest of the capital. In order to cut off the enemy's aid route, he sent an American volunteer, Robert Jordan, to contact the guerrillas in the mountains behind the enemy lines. When the fighting started, an iron bridge was blown up. This book begins with the old guide anselmo taking Jordan to the bridgehead post for reconnaissance, and then they set off for the guerrilla camp. The old man called Pablo, the leader of the group, and Jordan confronted him immediately, and the contradiction began step by step. Pablo used to be a horse dealer, supplying horses to the army and the bullring. Later, when he was a helper in the bullring, he met bilal, and bilal lived with the matador Finito. After Finito was killed by a cow, she was with Pablo. When the revolution broke out, Barrow led a group of people to surround the barracks in his hometown, arrested all the fascists and put them to death. Three days later, I was attacked by the reactionary army and went to the mountains to fight guerrilla warfare. In the past year, I attacked the enemy's stronghold several times, bombed a train, got some horses, and began to drink heavily and felt depressed. I just want to live in this mountain area. Knowing Jordan's purpose, he put forward his so-called fox principle on the spot: if you want to stay in one area, you can only go to other areas, otherwise you will be driven away by the enemy. Bilal is a straightforward and enthusiastic woman. She lived with several painful matadors and tasted some human happiness. She fell in love with Pablo because he is full of masculinity. However, nearly half a century ago, she was very distressed to see him degenerate into a short-sighted drunkard and coward. Like those miserable guerrilla fighters, she can't contribute to the country they love. At this point, * * * and the country sent a blaster. That night, everyone gathered in the cave. Bilal took the lead to express Pablo's agreement to blow up the bridge. Everyone unanimously expressed their support for her. She said, "I am the master here." At this tense juncture, Jordan couldn't help but put his hand on the pistol, and Pablo gave in, but later he went back on his word and only proceeded from personal safety. With the help of Ballal and everyone, Jordan had to overcome the difficulties caused by his sabotage activities and the interference of enemy cavalry, and completed the task of bombing the bridge in time on Tuesday morning, but unfortunately he died.
Hemingway played his unique narrative art, closely surrounding Robert Jordan's actions with detailed action descriptions and colorful dialogues, and told the story to the end in one go, at the same time, he inserted a lot of inner monologues and memories, which made the hero's image very full. ...
Hemingway worked in China and Europe as a war correspondent in World War II, and participated in many battles in Europe. At the beginning of 1946, he returned to Guanjing village and claimed that he was writing a novel about "land, sea and sky", but it was not until 196 1 year that he committed suicide that he was able to finalize it. Among the two novels published in his later years and two posthumous works published by his wife, only the novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) won unanimous praise and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954). From the protagonists of all Hemingway's works, we can more or less see the shadow of the author himself. Robert Jordan said that he was not a real Marxist, but an anti-fascist righteous man, and actually expressed his position. However, from Frederic Henry, a young American officer disillusioned in an unjust war in A Farewell to Arms, to Robert Jordan, an American volunteer who gave his youth to the people's cause in For Who the Bell Tolls, to Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who struggled with nature in a canoe in the Gulf of Mexico in The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway's hero seems to have experienced a self-development.