His lifelong love for Spain including a fascination with bullfighting led to his working as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, which resulted in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. ... The storyline is easy enough for a child to follow and the themes are clear and basic, showing manly courage, endurance, and noble suffering. ...
He has written several novels such as, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. ... One of the main themes of The Sun Also Rises is impotence. ... Other themes found under the umbrella of impotence are: lack of family, rootlessness, nihilism, and alienation, being from somewhere else and being cut off from the past. ... The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer, the good and bad hillsides, and a railroad station between two tracks. ...
