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Many guns figure prominently in the 1940 novel ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'', perhaps most significantly the Smith and Wesson .32 revolver handed down by Robert Jordan’s grandfather, a veteran of the American Civil War: | Many guns figure prominently in the 1940 novel ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'', perhaps most significantly the Smith and Wesson .32 revolver handed down by Robert Jordan’s grandfather, a veteran of the American Civil War: | ||
It was a single action officer’s model .32 caliber and there was no trigger guard. It had the softest, sweetest trigger pull you had ever felt and it was always well oiled and the bore was clean although the finish was all worn off and the brown metal of the barrel and the cylinder was worn smooth from the leather of the holster.(Hemingway, ''For Whom'' ''336'') | {{center|It was a single action officer’s model .32 caliber and there was no trigger}} {{center|guard. It had the softest, sweetest trigger pull you had ever felt and it}} {{center|was always well oiled and the bore was clean although the finish was all}} {{center|worn off and the brown metal of the barrel and the cylinder was worn smooth}} {{center|from the leather of the holster.(Hemingway, ''For Whom'' ''336'')}} | ||
After Robert’s father commits suicide with this gun (like the author’s own father), although the revolver is lovingly described, Robert Jordan disposes of | After Robert’s father commits suicide with this gun (like the author’s own father), although the revolver is lovingly described, Robert Jordan disposes of | ||