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The Lieutenant-Colonel Miranda is a "short, gray-faced man” who has been in the army all his life. Miranda became a Republican because he could not divorce his wife under fascist regulations, and his sole ambition is “to finish the war with the same rank.” Unlike the guerrillas, who have suffered greatly in the war, Miranda has prospered because of it: he feels more physically fit, and his twenty-three-year-old mistress is pregnant.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Miranda Character Timeline in For Whom the Bell Tolls
The timeline below shows where the character Lieutenant-Colonel Miranda appears in For Whom the Bell Tolls. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 40
...bring,” but he stores it all away “for some time in the future.” The Lieutenant-Colonel Miranda enters: he has been in the army all his life and has lost “the love...
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Miranda asks Gomez what brings him to the headquarters, and Gomez shows him Andrés’s papers and...
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