A Farewell to Arms

The use of weather in literature is found to either set the tone of a book, describe a character, or foreshadow an event that could occur. One author in particular who took enormous advantage of weather was Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell To Arms. In the book A Farewell To Arms, the main character, Frederic Henry, is an American in the Italian Army, fighting in World War I. While Frederic is away at war he falls head over heals for a nurse named Catherine Barkley. Before you know it, their…

Aspect 2 Main Idea: Another influential woman in Hemingway’s life is his first love Agnes Von Kurowsky Evidence: In A Farewell To Arms Hemingway wrote, “wrfvikerfk” (Hemingway). Explain Evidence: Agnes was the only women in hemingway’s life to ever leave him first so he believed she should punished for her deceit towards him, thus, depicting her as Catherine Barkley in A Farewell To Arms and made her suffer in his fictional works to get through the heartbreak. How it impacts writing: Hemingway…

Literary archetypes are universal models or patterns that characters are based upon, they aren’t necessarily stereotypes. Archetypes can enhance or degrade the novel depending on their quality. Throughout the novel, A Farewell to Arms, Catherine Barkley is portrayed as the martyr of the story. This means that Catherine is subjected to putting others needs and emotions before her own, especially when it comes to Lieutenant Henry's, the Italian soldier she has fallen madly in love with. This…

The novel A Farewell To Arms shows the development of the main character, narrator, and protagonist, Lieutenant Frederic Henry. From the beginning of the novel as a character that had not experienced true lost and his feelings towards war, Catherine Barkley, and his friends all seem superficial yet go through a drastic change as the character develops throughout each book. Book One introduces the readers to the character Lieutenant Frederic Henry, who is portrayed as naive and did not think…

This means that the trauma of war is as inescapable as Einstein’s laws of relativity. The authors of these books explore the inevitability of war’s trauma throughout their works. In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the authors use the rhetorical devices of imagery, similes, personification, and arrangement in order to achieve their purposes of demonstrating the destructiveness and terrible reality of war; saying that it is worse for the mental than…

“Role of Love” Love is like war, easy to begin with, but hard to come to an end with. War has a domino effect on love throughout the book A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. We see love work for the better and worse while in war. Hemingway expresses his idea of love in war and Henry 's relationships with other characters. War brings his relationships together with friends and at the same time tears them apart. Hemingway is able to express his views of love through characters apart of…

A Farwell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway was written in 1929. The story of Frederic Henry is set during World War I in Italy. Frederic Henry is an American serving as a Lieutenant for the Italian Army. His actual job for the army is an ambulance driver. Frederic’s story gets a bit more interesting when he meets Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. The main story line aside from the focus of World War I is Frederic and Catherine’s love story. Whether or not it can be considered a love story is up…

When they first meet, Frederic pretends to love Catherine so that she may have sex with him as the girls at the “house for officers” would, even though he does “not love Catherine Barkley nor [has] any idea of loving her” (Hemingway 26). However, he does imagine going romantically away to Milan with her, where they would “drink the capri [with] the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and [they] would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan” (Hemingway 32)…

While rowing to Switzerland, Catherine says “Nonsense. Rowing in moderation is very good for the pregnant lady” (Chapter 31 pg. 275) to Henry in order to convince him to let her row the boat. This seems to be an insignificant quote, but, in reality, this portrays the stupidity of women throughout the book and how important this pertains to Hemingway’s thought process. The stupidity and low intelligent of the women was a common theme throughout the book. Women in the story are portrayed as…

Ever how fleeting is youth... Torn from the womb, a tender rosebud that blossoms into a beautiful rose, only to reign a supreme for a few precious days before it withers, petal by petal from the peduncle and falls to its death… L.B. Thirty-six days later, Allie received her first letter from Thomas. With trembling fingers, she broke the seal to read what her husband had written. When she finished reading it, Allie folded it neatly and then looked across Charleston Harbor toward where Fort…