¶ … Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway. Specifically, it will discuss rain throughout the story. Rain and water are two reoccurring themes woven through the story. Hemingway uses water and rain as a subtle warning of the characters ultimate fate.
FAREWELL TO ARMS"
Hemingway wrote "A Farewell to Arms" after his own service in World War I as an ambulance driver for the Italian Red Cross. Many people believe "A Farewell to Arms" is really his own story, for he spent some time in an Italian hospital after a bomb exploded near him, and he may have fallen in love with his nurse. "A Farewell to Arms" is more than a tragic love story, it is a story about the ultimate horrors of war, and how the people fighting do not really matter. "The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially" (Hemingway 249).
Many critics believe it is Hemingway's finest novel, and perhaps that is the case because it was so very close to his own life and experience.
The novel itself tells the story of Catherine, a wartime nurse from England, and Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving in Italy during World War I. Catherine is initially involved with Frederic's friend, Rinaldi, but soon begins an affair with Frederic. Her fiance was recently killed, and Catherine is desperate for love, so desperate she will settle for it even if it is nothing more than an illusion. She is not really in love with Frederic, and he is too cool and detached to ever really love her.
Symbolism is intense in this novel,...
Ernest Hemingway on individualism and self-realization. Specifically, it will discuss several sources, and incorporate information from at least one Roberts and Jacobs short story, poem, or play. Ernest Hemingway embodies his characters with some of his own rugged individualism and search for meaning in life. Many other authors incorporate this theme in their works, because it seems to touch a cord in many readers, who also hope to learn
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