Don Roberto y sus gitanos: el ensalzamiento de Robert Jordan como héroe en "For whom the Bell tolls"

This article tries to analyze the internal mechanisms by which Ernest Hemin- gway transforms the protagonist of his famous Spanish-war novel For Whom the Bell Tolls in the archetypical literary hero that Robert Jordan represents. My principal thesis consists in the opinion that this heroism has its origin in the difference of delineation that the author carries out upon the American combatant and the Spanish characters that surround him in the novel (by means of a latent contraposition of qualities and abilities from which the outsider will come out always as "better" for the reader). This analytical task will be carried out by approaching the different features (linguistic, physical and psychological) that Hemingway uses for the creation of his characters. Keywords: Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls - War literature - Heroic qualities and skills - Contraposition between Spanish and Foreign characters - Visions upon the civil-war Spain.