¶ … Farewell to Arms -- Hemingway
Hemingway's well-critiqued novel, A Farewell to Arms is always a subject of intense literary examination because the structure of the novel has great lessons and examples for the reader and the critic as well. The narrative structure of Hemingway's book is almost considered a textbook example of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution / denouement. Those literary tools used by Hemingway will be presented in this paper.
A Farewell to Arms
There are many great novelists from English and American history and there are many even in contemporary society. Students that are studying literature and the tools that make good literature are often attracted to Hemingway because not only is he a worthy talent to learn from but his narrative represents different voices based on the conflict that is occurring, or on the character that is being developed. In A Farewell to Arms it is almost as though Hemingway wrote five distinctly different short stories and linked them together brilliantly to engage the reader and develop his theme.
The landscape in Italy during the war is an important part of the exposition in A Farewell to Arms; the author uses exposition to set the table for the characters and the conflict. One way to look at exposition in A Farewell to Arms that it helps prepare the reader for what is to come in this book. There will be conflict (not just because it is about the Spanish Civil War, but because it is a novel and conflict is always a part of good literature). The reader comes into contact with Frederick and he immediately is a sympathetic figure because of the way Hemingway presents the exposition into the novel.
Frederick is in a war, he's a soldier, so he has his job and he can't be too distracted from his responsibilities lest he get killed or cause another solider to be harmed in some way....
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