1. I believe that Hemingway was foreshadowing the outcome of the novel by including the exclusive quote, “we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.” A series of unfortunate events dealing with foreshadowing occurred throughout the novel to determine that the end result would be bitter. Within the novel, Henry and Catherine play enticing games with each other that foreshadows their growing love for one another. As the novel continues, so does Henry and Catherine’s love. When Henry is wounded in battle and sent to a hospital in Milan, Catherine follows. Their fondness for each other deepens and Catherine is soon with child. Henry is then suspected of avoiding the war and is punished. Henry then becomes a deserter and moves to Switzerland with Catherine and they give birth to their stillborn child. With the remorse and guilt expressed in the beginning of the novel by Henry not visiting Abruzzi creates a sense of a saddening foreshadowing through the novel. With the
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Henry’s point of view regarding the war was a neutral one in the introduction of the novel. When Henry was injured and posted in the Milan hospital, Henry’s outlook on the topic of war takes an unsettling turn. This does inform how he tells the story because throughout the book, it changes. In the beginning of the novel I felt that Henry neither had a positive or negative reaction to the war until his injury. Towards the end of the novel, Henry no longer wants to participate in the war and is no longer interested in receiving a medal for recognition of being injured simply because at the time of the injury he was not engaging in a heroic act. Henry takes the “nothing is worse than war” side of the argument in Chapter IX. I believe that Hemingway introduced the debate just before men are injured and killed to the reader to give both sides an equal chance at winning the reader’s conscious through the debate before seeing the absolute negative effects of the concept,
Henry’s point of view regarding the war was a neutral one in the introduction of the novel. When Henry was injured and posted in the Milan hospital, Henry’s outlook on the topic of war takes an unsettling turn. This does inform how he tells the story because throughout the book, it changes. In the beginning of the novel I felt that Henry neither had a positive or negative reaction to the war until his injury. Towards the end of the novel, Henry no longer wants to participate in the war and is no longer interested in receiving a medal for recognition of being injured simply because at the time of the injury he was not engaging in a heroic act. Henry takes the “nothing is worse than war” side of the argument in Chapter IX. I believe that Hemingway introduced the debate just before men are injured and killed to the reader to give both sides an equal chance at winning the reader’s conscious through the debate before seeing the absolute negative effects of the concept,