When For Whom the Bell Tolls was __1___ in 1940, it immediately became a resounding, ___2___ and popular success and helped cement Ernest Hemingway’s ___3___ as one of America’s foremost writers. Readers praised its ___4___ portrait of not only the ___5___ tensions in Europe that would soon ___6___ into World War II but also the complexities of the entire ___7___ of war for the ___8___ who found him or herself fighting for a ___9___. Hemingway had previously ___10___ this theme, most notably in his short story collection, In Our Time (1924), and in his novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929). Yet his attitude toward hissubject in For Whom the Bell Tollsreveals a ___11___ shift. While his previous works focused more on the ___12___ of war, this novel ends with a reaffirmation of __13___.