Passion

When reading, I was really interested when they explained what an aficionado was. Hemingway described it in the story as "One who is passionate about the bull-fights"(page 136). I found this interesting because it brought the Spanish culture into the story. It was almost like a teaching to those readers who are clueless like me! I have taken Spanish but never learned about the bullfighting like this book explained it. I actually understood it when Jake said the experiences he said. For Hemingway to write this, I am guessing he had to do a lot of research about it. He probably had to go to them and experience them firsthand to write about this. I have heard this word before but never in the contex of bull fighting,too. I just thought it was actually cool that there was a connection between the word and the culture. Just something I found interesting in the book.