 "People" Fred Hauptfuhrer notes that "Hemingway purists" may be offended by some of the changes.Arthur Unger of "The Christian Science Monitor" described this production as "a minor literary classic, which has now been turned into a major miniseries disaster".Stephen Farber of "The New York Times" recounts numerous elements depicted in the film that were not in the source material such as A grieving Jake Barnes attends the funeral of a prostitute he had visited several times before being wounded and rendered impotent in World War I. Pedro Romero, the handsome young Spanish bull fighter, uses his sword to murder a vindictive count who has threatened the life of Lady Brett Ashley.