The coded heroes of a farewell to arms and for whom the bell tollsIn the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, there is something known as from “Hero Hemingway”. This term is usually applied to the male protagonist of his works. Hemingway's hero exemplifies a variety of traits, from heavy drinking to his role as a leader among the characters with whom he interacts. The traits of this hero also resemble the personal characteristics of Hemingway himself, and the hero usually finds himself in the difficult situations that Hemingway faced in his life. Two of Hemingway's heroes, Robert Jordan from For Whom the Bell Tolls and Frederic Henry from A Farewell to Arms, exhibit the traits established in Hemingway's heroic code. Given the presence of war in each novel, both heroes repeatedly demonstrate leadership in one form or another. Jordan and Henry also mature to realize that they hold the capacity to love as each develops an intimate relationship with a woman they meet. Just as Ernest Hemingway rescued the wounded in the Great War, Frédéric Henry drove an ambulance for the Italian army during the same war. And although Hemingway did not fight in the Spanish Civil War like Robert Jordan did, he wrote newspaper articles covering the war in order to publicize the Republican struggle. The hero that Hemingway creates in his fiction serves several purposes. Through his heroes, Hemingway idealizes his beliefs about life and how men should act as well as the events in his own life. Since Hemingway's time, literary critics have defined his heroic code as follows: Hemingway's hero does not believe in the afterlife, is courageous, strong and pleasure-seeking, thinks cowardice is shameful, believes in grace, courage and discipline, thinks middle of paper ...... as collecting important information on deck for Robert.Frederic Henry, on the other hand, has little respect for discipline, and the intern hardly displays any. Henry begins the war helping the Italian army, as an ambulance driver. He was wounded in the leg and, after recovering, deserted the army when separated from the rest of the army during a retreat......Works CitedHemingway, Ernest. A farewell to arms. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957.---. For whom the bell tolls. New York: The Sons of Charles Scribner, 1968. Ernest Hemingway in his time. July 1999. University of Delaware Library, Department of Special Collections. December 29, 20002Flashback. July 1999. The Atlantic Monthly. December 29, 2000Hemingway Campfire. February 2000. Hemingway Nantucket Campfire. January 5. 2002