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Rojack’s psychological and spiritual descent parallels Hemingway’s bullfighters—brushing close to mortality to find meaning. | Rojack’s psychological and spiritual descent parallels Hemingway’s bullfighters—brushing close to mortality to find meaning. | ||
Rojack concludes that death, dread, and even magic are the real motivators of life. His study turns into something larger: an attempt to make sense of existence through mortality. | |||
Here, Sanders draws a clear line from Kierkegaard’s fear of living “in vanity” to Rojack’s fear that he has wasted his life pretending. If death makes us feel, then art helps us respond. | |||