Domineering Women in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Psychoanalytic Approach

Abstract

In this study, a specific character, Pilar, will be analyzed for the presence of the characteristics of a domineering woman through the analysis of Earnest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. Expanding from this base and through the application of Jung’s archetypal criticism and Chodorow’s further study on feminist psychoanalysis, it aims to understand the psychoanalytical factor behind a woman to break out of the ‘supposed’ norm. The focus will be on highlighting Pilar as a domineering woman who adopted masculine qualities, yet stands as a mother figure throughout the text. The paper thus, hopes to study existing research and bridge the gap in character analysis through this particular lens.