he deserves. Moreover, his way of living his own life is influenced by the actual events that surrounded DiMaggio’s career and life:
Another case in point is an indirect revelation of actual historical events that we must know about if we are to appreciate fully the symbolic parallels between Santiago and Joe DiMaggio, and the role of the champion in nature and society that these important parallels help define. (Sylvester 246)
The issue presented by Sylvester is to be found in Hemingway’s work, The Old Man and the Sea, as follows: “Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio” (Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 16). Despite his being injured, DiMaggio continued to play and fight the pain no matter how hard it hurt: “But I must have confidence …show more content…
Jordan is extremely devoted to his cause in the beginning and to the fulfillment of the mission, rejecting anything that could distract him. But everything changes, as in A Farewell to Arms, when he meets Maria, a woman who has experienced the cruelties of war and they fall in love. Maria becomes Jordan’s catalyst in his journey and gives him an empowered desire to live and to value life more than he ever did. Her image is enough to keep him going forward no matter what impediments he encounters. Even when the cowardly Pablo steals the dynamite that was to be used to destroy the bridge and accomplish the mission, Jordan seeks another strategy and, defying how dangerous it would be, he uses the hand grenades in order to achieve his aim. He finds the power to do it thinking of Maria. Robert succeeds in doing his job, but as in the other two novels, the victory is not a total one, but a temporary and moral one. He loses his friend, Anselmo, in the explosion and himself is to die soon. What is different, and also proves that he has “grace under pressure” becoming a true hero, is the fact that he puts the cause of the others before himself. When wounded and aware that he cannot make it, he tells the others to go without him and asks Maria to live her life happily, telling her that as long
Another case in point is an indirect revelation of actual historical events that we must know about if we are to appreciate fully the symbolic parallels between Santiago and Joe DiMaggio, and the role of the champion in nature and society that these important parallels help define. (Sylvester 246)
The issue presented by Sylvester is to be found in Hemingway’s work, The Old Man and the Sea, as follows: “Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio” (Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 16). Despite his being injured, DiMaggio continued to play and fight the pain no matter how hard it hurt: “But I must have confidence …show more content…
Jordan is extremely devoted to his cause in the beginning and to the fulfillment of the mission, rejecting anything that could distract him. But everything changes, as in A Farewell to Arms, when he meets Maria, a woman who has experienced the cruelties of war and they fall in love. Maria becomes Jordan’s catalyst in his journey and gives him an empowered desire to live and to value life more than he ever did. Her image is enough to keep him going forward no matter what impediments he encounters. Even when the cowardly Pablo steals the dynamite that was to be used to destroy the bridge and accomplish the mission, Jordan seeks another strategy and, defying how dangerous it would be, he uses the hand grenades in order to achieve his aim. He finds the power to do it thinking of Maria. Robert succeeds in doing his job, but as in the other two novels, the victory is not a total one, but a temporary and moral one. He loses his friend, Anselmo, in the explosion and himself is to die soon. What is different, and also proves that he has “grace under pressure” becoming a true hero, is the fact that he puts the cause of the others before himself. When wounded and aware that he cannot make it, he tells the others to go without him and asks Maria to live her life happily, telling her that as long