Mora, with a “red face,” “a blond, British-looking moustache,” and “something wrong about his eyes,” is the brash leader of the fascists who square up against El Sordo and his group. Berrendo thinks of him as a foolhardy “gunslinger”; indeed, Mora is convinced that the Republicans have been killed during the first offensive and mocks the other fascist troops for refusing to believe him. After shouting “filth” at the hill, he sets off alone in an attempt to prove that the Republicans are dead, though he quickly realizes that they are alive and hiding.
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Captain Mora Character Timeline in For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Chapter 27
...his best friend, a young lieutenant, is dead on the slope. The first officer, Captain Mora, calls the Republican “the swine who shot my sister and my mother,” and he continues...
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Berrendo tells Mora that it isn’t smart to go up into the hills, but Mora insists that the...
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