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Even Rojack’s wounds recall Hemingway’s wartime injury. But unlike Hemingway’s characters, Rojack’s injury is existential as much as physical. He’s split between performance and truth, public life and private emptiness. | Even Rojack’s wounds recall Hemingway’s wartime injury. But unlike Hemingway’s characters, Rojack’s injury is existential as much as physical. He’s split between performance and truth, public life and private emptiness. | ||
Rojack isn’t just a man—he’s a mask. He’s a war hero, a politician, a husband. But behind each role is a void. The war haunts him, not with glory, but with guilt. One look in the eyes of a man he killed convinces him: death isn’t emptiness. It’s truth. | |||
That truth drives him to reject his public identity and search for something real—something earned, not assigned. | |||