The weather in any given scene of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms frequently mirrors the theme of that section of the novel. In the final scene when Frederick was walking back to the hotel after the death of Catherine and their son, Hemingway indicated that it was raining. “After a while I went out and walked back to the hotel in the rain” (332). The rain, like tears, adeptly portrays the cutting sorrow of Frederick over the loss of the woman that meant the most to him. Another example of the weather reflecting the theme was before the inclement weather forced Frederick and Catherine moved to Lausanne. “We lived through the months of January and February and the winter was very fine and we were very happy” (306). When the weather was
