The Old Man And The Sea And A Farewell To Arms Analysis

The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms are novels full of tragedy-stricken individuals. Yet through all this uproarious calamity the main characters strive for happiness. Although neither character gets the ending that they desire, it is through this search for fulfillment that both Santiago’s and Frederic Henry’s lives are given meaning. This is most notably accomplished through the pursuit and struggle for love. Life is filled with both ups and downs,moments filled with happiness and those filled with sadness. Hemingway takes this concept and, through his writing, shows the reader that life may not develop in the way we wish, despite putting up the struggle for love. Throughout Ernest Hemingway’s life, he endured a lot of suffering and sadness which he clearly expresses in his writings. Like many writers, Hemingway based the books that he wrote off of his own personal experiences. In both stories, The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway shows us characters that experience a great deal of misery and hardship in order to gain happiness. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel that exemplifies how one’s passions can shine through the drudgeries of life. Although the old man is isolated from civilization when he is both in town and out at sea, his love for Manolin, a boy who helps him, as …show more content…
The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms share the same themes of love and suffering, and are in certain ways tied directly to his own deep affections and tribulations. Throughout Hemingway’s life, he searched for love. He lived a life brimming with passion, and experienced his fair share of amorous effervescence and despair. Hemingway’s life was filled with misery, yet he fought his suffering in search of the same thing as his characters did—happiness. Unfortunately he was not able to overcome his hardships, much like his characters, and he ended up committing