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Where in For Whom the Bell Tolls does Robert Jordan walk in on his father attempting suicide?
Christian
May 20, 2014 09:17PM
I am looking for a passage in For Whom the Bell Tolls, in which a young Robert Jordan walks in on his father (I believe in a barn) attempting to kill himself. He asks the young Jordan to do it for him, but Jordan walks out. I am nearly positive in this novel, and I am certain it is a scene from Hemingway's writing, but I cannot find it. Please help!For Whom the Bell Tolls
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This doesn't ring a bell for me in Hemingway. It is Chapter 30 in For Whom the Bell Tolls where Robert Jordan thinks about his grandfather's gun and his father's suicide but there is no scene like the one you mention.
In the short story "Fathers and Sons" Nick Adams is upset with his father at one point and contemplates shooting him from a woodshed. But that is a small aside in the story and has nothing to do with suicide.
Take a look at the various items collected in the "Interrupted Suicides Trope Wiki" esp. under the "Literature" heading and see if it was one of those other books that you might have read. Only Arto Paasilinna's novel Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha seems to have anything to do with a barn, but that one seems pretty obscure. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php...
In the short story "Fathers and Sons" Nick Adams is upset with his father at one point and contemplates shooting him from a woodshed. But that is a small aside in the story and has nothing to do with suicide.
Take a look at the various items collected in the "Interrupted Suicides Trope Wiki" esp. under the "Literature" heading and see if it was one of those other books that you might have read. Only Arto Paasilinna's novel Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha seems to have anything to do with a barn, but that one seems pretty obscure. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php...
Maybe I should have added that "Fathers and Sons" is in the Hemingway short story collection "Winner Take Nothing" and in most of his collected short story anthologies.
Chapter 30, page 355 mentions that his father killed himself with his grandfather's pistol.
hope that helps!
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