Hemingway's Past Experiences as Themes in For Whom the Bell Tolls
<Tab/>In comparison to many other authors who sit on a desk and write secondhand accounts, Hemingway was quite different, for he encountered, and experienced, almost all of the events he wrote about in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. As one critic said: "Critics frequently state their belief that Hemingway's writing is largely autobiographical, based on personal experience..." (Hays n.p.). For Whom the Bell Tolls is about the …
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Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Scribner's, 1940.
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