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Hemingway Character Analysis

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Thus, Maria is shown suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from the many traumas she has experienced. She has witnessed the killing of more than 500,000 persons in that war and has witnessed the destruction of the physical landscape of her homeland with its culture, besides the war has turned some of whom she had considered friends and neighbors to enemies and thereafter she has to face her additional injustices when she has to witness the execution of her parents and to be raped by the murders. The trauma of the nineteen years old girl has been constituted in addition to all these factors with her being hold as a prisoner and being involved in a train explosion that left her with perpetual fear. Her traumatic memories of the past have brought her pain with repeated crying and shiver. She fears that her horrible events of the past will be repeated in the near-future which asserts William Adair’s comment that most of Hemingway’s novels “are structured on a disguised repetition of pre-story or early-story ‘shocking losses.’ That is, the submerged part of the iceberg is often a fear that the near-future will be a repetition in another form of the past” (Adair, 1983, p.298). Despite the fact that Maria has been dismissed by some of the critics, but the recent criticism has recognized Maria as the most heroic character in the novel. Maria has revealed real bravery and she survives at the end of the novel to fight another day. Hemingway’s aim is not to reflect the

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