André Marty is a deeply cynical French commander and Communist allied with the Republican forces whom Andrés encounters when he comes to deliver Robert Jordan’s missive. Marty believes that Andrés and Gomez are fascist spies and refuses to pass the message on to General Golz until it is too late; when he realizes the errors of his ways, he shows little remorse.
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André Marty Character Timeline in For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Chapter 42
...has a dispatch for General Golz from behind the fascist lines, and the man, André Marty, tells the corporal of the guard to arrest both Gomez and Andrés.
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...to explain that Andrés is a guerilla with an important dispatch. The guard says that Marty is “crazy as a bedbug,” with “a mania for shooting people.” Still, he says that...
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Gomez tells Marty that the dispatch for Golz is a “matter of utmost urgence,” and Andrés says that...
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Marty is “worried and made wary” by Karkov, and whenever he interacts with Karkov, he finds...
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