"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway - Done

I knew from the start of this book how it would end. Anyone who knows the poem from which the title is taken should be able to see that easily enough. The only questions were how would it happen, and of course, whether or not he would complete his mission.

Then as I read, I grew to like Robert Jordan more and more, but always remained aware, as Pilar is in the story from her look at his hand, of what was to come. And it did…sort of. For me, the story ended a page and half too soon. I went ahead and finished the story in my own mind, but I would have preferred for Hemingway to do it. He piloted the ship for the entire journey; he might just as well have put it in the port.