Robert Jordan In The End

People do not really realise how war can take a toll on people and the environment around it.War and romance are the two main points talked about in the book. You realise how each one takes a turn on everyone and how each person is affected in the story. This story is meant to be about war but you realise that it focuses on other things, like the love between some of the couples in the story; so one sees that the story leaves its main focus a lot which is the war and talks about other things like love. For example the love story between Robert Jordan and Maria, which is the central focus in Robert Jordan's own personal story and what is mostly narrated. This story is mainly narrated from Roberts point of view; and is mainly about his thoughts …show more content…
But it's still far from a happy ending, or something they can be happy about; because who in their right mind would be happy about such an ending, one would have to be very sick in the head to find that amusing.While on their mission, they loose Anselmo (very dear and close to Robert Jordan, and most readers) and Eladio, in addition to the five other men unknown to us that Pablo murders. As they run away, Robert Jordan himself is wounded badly while on horseback, losing the use of his left leg. Recognizing that if he went with the others he would be too much of a burden for them to have any hope of escaping, he stays behind because he obviously doesn't want to slow them down. He forces the love of his life to leave him to die alone in one last confrontation with the fascists; because nobody ever wants their loved one to watch them die, so robert definitely has maria leave before he …show more content…
Yes, the ending seems to bring us back to Hemingway's stereotypical male character: the guy faces the cruel truth of the situation, where the man leaves the one he loves and neglects his people to buy his friends some time being obviously the “the hero” of the story because he some what in a way sacrifices his life for the others to live. To add to that image, the last thoughts that he has, Robert Jordan decides to turn to his own male ideal, his grandfather who he obviously looks up to and tries to gather himself to face death and the paralyzing pain of his wound and what is to come. Nonetheless, in some way, he admits that he doesn't prove so good at either as he'd hoped. From the perspective of the plot structure, the ending is nicely orchestrated and makes sense to how the book starts in the very beginning. The book's first sentence is mirrored and comes together in the last sentence bringing the whole structure together and what the story really is about; and again one sees the repetition of Hemingway's writing on how he makes sure that the reader has understood what he is getting at in the plot of the story,once more describing Robert Jordan lying on the "pine needle floor" and waiting. In many respects the ending ties together other themes from the book. Take the repeated image that is shown of Robert Jordan on the forest floor itself, it seems that Robert has a thing with pine floors. One