A Farewell To Arms Rhetorical Analysis

When an author wants to portray something a certain way they have to use literary and rhetorical devices to lead the reader through the book. In A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway uses imagery, diction, foreshadowing and many other literary devices to send the reader through the lives of the characters. The devices Hemingway uses makes the characters become more realistic to the reader. With this being said the purpose of Hemingway’s writing is to give the reader a visual sense of the characters, but without the literary and rhetorical devices this would not be able to happen. Hemingway starts off with using imagery to create a scene of an Italian village that the main character is going through during World War 1. The imagery in the beginning is completely …show more content…
Hemingway uses light very colorful terms to describe the scene, but in the end Frederic Henry, the main character, is walking the rain. In the end scene Hemingway uses dark, gloomy words to describe the ending of the book. From the very beginning of the book Hemingway deceived the reader into think the book is going to end with a lighter tone. Having the book start off with the lighter tone masks the dark reality of the book. Hemingway wanted the reader to not suspect the dark tragedies that are faced later on in the chapter. Other than the first couple of sentences in chapter one, the rest of the book remain dark. Although the light hearted tone does not last long the reader is still faced by the sudden change in tone. Hemingway uses images of a town in war, a town that has been taken over by war. The rest of the first chapter sets up the