Andrés Character Analysis in For Whom the Bell Tolls

Eladio’s brother. Andrés is the guerilla tasked with delivering the message from Robert Jordan to General Golz warning Golz that the offensive on the bridge should be canceled; in a series of unfortunate events, Andrés’s message arrives too late, dooming the guerillas. He loves bullfighting and was an active participant in capeas in his hometown (an event in which audience members spar with bulls in an arena). Andrés and Eladio become Republicans because their father was one, and Andrés believes that he has been born “into a time of great difficulty”—and that “any other time was probably easier.” Andrés has lost his family, save for Eladio, and though he considers himself “an unfortunate man,” he is also determined to “fight to live,” and like Pilar, he truly believes in the Republican cause.

Andrés Character Timeline in For Whom the Bell Tolls

The timeline below shows where the character Andrés appears in For Whom the Bell Tolls. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...face looks “like a model for a granite monument.” She tells Rafael to send her Andrés and greets Robert Jordan kindly. Jordan tells her that he is an explosives expert like... (full context)

...Scotch (Scottish). Primitivo asks Jordan about the mountains and pastures in the United States, and Andrés asks about taxes on land; Primitivo wonders whether the “big proprietors and the rich” will... (full context)

Violence, Cowardice, and Death Theme Icon

...is in favor of the murder, too, though he was against it before. Eladio and Andrés (the brothers) and Primitivo agree, though Fernando asks if they could hold him as a... (full context)

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...“very beautiful and very brave.” Pilar says that this is “nonsense,” since Jordan shot him. Andrés asks him if he believes in “the possibility of a man seeing ahead what is... (full context)

...takes the soldier’s automatic rifle off of the horse, which Primitivo has retrieved, and he, Andrés, Fernando, Agustin, and Robert Jordan set off. Maria asks if she can come with him,... (full context)

...the thing of tomorrow,” he will go “gladly.” He tells Jordan that Primitivo, Pilar, Anselmo, Andrés, Eladio, and Fernando are dependable, though Pablo and Rafael are not. Jordan hears automatic rifle... (full context)

...and the number of dead and wounded. Jordan decides to write a dispatch and send Andrés, who Anselmo promises is reliable, to deliver it to General Golz at the Estado Mayor... (full context)

...Suddenly, he knows “absolutely” that he will have to blow up the bridge, and whatever Andrés does—whether he is able to deliver the message or not—doesn’t matter. (full context)

...is a valley that no one holds, save for a fascist post in a farmhouse. Andrés, on his way to deliver Robert Jordan’s message to Golz, circles around this post in... (full context)

When Robert Jordan spoke to Andrés about delivering the message, Andrés felt the way he used to feel when he was... (full context)

Andrés had always been brave in the village capeas, able to wait until the bull charged... (full context)

Tomorrow, Andrés thinks, will be a day of “valid action,” of “concrete acts.” He sees a partridge... (full context)

Andrés arrives at the Republican government post, but he doesn’t cross the “triple belt of wire”... (full context)

Andrés is allowed to climb over the parapet, and the bomb man of the group greets... (full context)

Andrés is “endowed with almost supreme patience” and is not flustered by the soldiers’ criticism and... (full context)

Meanwhile, Andrés is following the soldier to the battalion headquarters, where he meets the battalion commander, a... (full context)

Miranda asks Gomez what brings him to the headquarters, and Gomez shows him Andrés’s papers and the dispatch from Robert Jordan. Miranda asks Andrés what the closest point to... (full context)

Meanwhile, Pablo has ridden back from the hills to the cave, and Andrés is making progress toward Golz’s headquarters with Gomez on his motorcycle. Gomez and Andrés encounter... (full context)

Andrés and Gomez reach a building and go in to ask where General Golz’s headquarters are,... (full context)

The guard searches Gomez and Andrés, and Gomez tries to explain that Andrés is a guerilla with an important dispatch. The... (full context)

Gomez tells Marty that the dispatch for Golz is a “matter of utmost urgence,” and Andrés says that it was given to him by Robert Jordan. Marty thinks that Golz is... (full context)

...is going to figure out “just how untouchable” he is, and he leaves the room. Andrés and Gomez get on Gomez’s motorcycle and stop at a point where three staff cars... (full context)

...that he loves this hour of the day, just before the sunrise. He wonders if Andrés got through to Golz, then tells himself not to worry, thinking that there is a... (full context)