Throughout the book we see both Frederic and Catherine grapple and overcome many battles that deal with major points of the modernist era. Such like the loss of identity, loss of innocence, loss of religion, and the rejection of love. Additionally within the book Hemingway structures the book in a way that relates back to Newton’s third law of motion: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the book, A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway implies that with every positive occurrence something negative will be occurring whether that be in the past, present, or future. Throughout the entirety of the book, Hemingway illustrates Newton’s third law of motion through Frederic and Catherine’s lives through the use of weather: rain and snow.
Bundled up and covered up from head to toe. Jumping around in the big white, sparkling blanket. Children lying on the blanket, moving their limbs back and forth making snow angles. Purity. Innocence. Cleanliness. That is what snow is or how Hemingway chose to use snow as in A Farewell To Arms. A Farewell To Arms uses snow to foreshadow or describe an object. When it comes to foreshadowing, snow usually gets associated with something positive