Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan is the name of the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, a book by Ernest Hemingway. Since he is already an instructor and first came to Spain in 1925, one can estimate Robert Jordan's age to be about 30, a little older than Frederic Henry. Jordan's grandfather fought in the American Civil War, as did Ernest Hall and Anson Hemingway, the author's own grandfathers. Although Jordan's grandfather is dead, he asks him for advice and thinks he was a "hell of a good soldier" (p. 360). Jordan admires him for having endured four years of civil war. By the time he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway's mental wounds had healed enough to allow him to reflect upon his father's suicide, as is reflected in the treatment of...