Wai Chee Dimock, professor at Yale, continues her lecture on Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, tracing the novel's recurring preoccupation with dying and not dying. Drawing on Elaine Scarry's writing on the aesthetics of killing, she reads the execution of the Fascists as a scene of both aesthetic and ethical ugliness. She then turns to the tragic-comic side of not dying, examining the bullfighter Finito's refusal to die and the smell of death that clings to the old women in the Madrid marketplace. The lecture closes on the word cobarde, coward, and how it attaches to two very different men, Robert Jordan's suicidal father and the stubbornly alive Pablo. Chapter markers move from the American Civil War as a distant echo of the Spanish conflict through Hemingway's own suicide before settling into close reading. Part of Yale's Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner course, recorded in 2011.