1. After reading this novel, I do believe that Hemingway was foreshadowing the outcome of the novel. In the beginning of the novel the priest suggests and encourages Henry to visit and attend the city of Abruzzi. The priest grew up there, it was his hometown. Henry is not a religious man, and he ends up feeling guilty when he reports back to the priest that he didn’t visit Abruzzi. The priest often offered spiritual advice and thoughts to those who had a hunger for it. He was often the center of the officers jokes. I think that the priest suggested this as a sign, and when Henry didn’t go, it set in a case of bad luck for the rest of the novel. Through the course of the novel several bad incidents take place. A trench mortar explodes killing several men alongside of Henry and completely ruins his leg. Henry is also later being searched for to be arrested for leaving the war. And while Catherine is in labor, and their child is born, he is stillborn. The fetus’ umbilical cord had been wrapped around its neck, and it didn’t survive. Catherine also didn’t survive the immediate caesarean that took place.
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He made an excuse not to go. He claims later in the novel, “I am afraid of Him in the night sometimes.” And instead Henry went to bars and whorehouses.The priest was only looking out for Henry, and his whole life turned upside down, in many ways. Henry faced hardships throughout the story, and I honestly believe that if he had taken the path he wanted to, his life would have ended up differently. Henry should have trusted in the priest to guide
He made an excuse not to go. He claims later in the novel, “I am afraid of Him in the night sometimes.” And instead Henry went to bars and whorehouses.The priest was only looking out for Henry, and his whole life turned upside down, in many ways. Henry faced hardships throughout the story, and I honestly believe that if he had taken the path he wanted to, his life would have ended up differently. Henry should have trusted in the priest to guide