Analysis Of Ernest Hemingway's Farewell To Arms

After going through bad times, there is a moment of reflection in which beliefs change. In the novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an English ambulance driver for the Italian army in World War I, after escaping into the river from the battle police who are interrogating and murdering innocent officers, realizes that Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, is the love of his life and his only priority. This incident leads to a rude awakening in the train ride to Milan of how awful it was when his own army did not hesitate to take his life, and it eradicates his obligation to serve in the war. Thus in his novel, Ernest Hemingway uses the illuminating incident of when Henry escapes his execution and then desires

This was better than going every evening to the house for officers... I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge..." (30) Catherine used the relationship to fulfill some fantasy. "‘And do you love me?' [asks Catherine] ‘Yes.'...‘Say, "I've come back to Catherine in the night."' ‘I've come back to Catherine in the night.' [Repeats Henry] ‘Oh, darling, you have come back, haven't you?'" (30) She has created a stage, scenario, and is giving Henry the dialogue, possibly fantasizing that Henry is her dead fiancee. Catherine recognizes the falsity of their relationship openly. "‘This is a rotten game we play, isn't it?'" (31) She later tells Henry that he no longer has to pretend to love her. He lies and says that he really does love her. She responds: "‘Please let's not lie when we don't have to. I had a very fine little show and I'm all right now.'"(31) Henry knows that he has no honest feelings for Catherine, and Catherine knows and admits the relationship is merely a game.

Ernest Hemingway’s novel of A Farewell to Arms depicts the harsh veracities of World War 1, based on Hemingway’s personal accounts. His novel, written with simplicity and sensory detail, develops a zealous affair between an injured ambulance driver and his nurse. Hemingway’s illustration of lovers amidst a war allows readers to create their own interpretation of how the story evolves. His writing entails the reader to examine the chaotic circumstances throughout the novel. For example, on page 172, Hemingway writes, “Well, we were in it. Everyone was caught in it and the small rain would not quiet it. ‘Goodnight, Catherine,’ I said out loud. ‘I hope you sleep well. If it’s too uncomfortable, darling, lie on the other side,’ I said. ‘I’ll get you some cold water. In a little while it will be morning and then it won’t be so bad. I’m sorry he makes you so uncomfortable. Try and go to sleep, sweet!’ I was asleep all the time, she said. You’ve been talking in your sleep.” Hemingway collaborates all the lovers’ troubles into a simple understanding. He allows the reader to acknowledge frustration and concern in daily life and plan how to overcome such obstacles. On page 169 he writes, “When we were out past the tanneries onto the main road the troops, the motor trucks, the horse-drawn carts and the guns were in one wide slow-moving column. We moved slowly but steadily in the rain, the radiator cap of our car almost against the tailboard of a truck that was loaded high, the load

Ernest Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917 and moved to Chicago to take a position at the Kansas City Star. Shortly after that, he enlisted in the war and went to Italy as a Red Cross ambulance driver. During his stay at the Italian front, he was seriously wounded while assisting a soldier and spent several weeks in a Milan hospital (Mazzeno). One can argue that Hemingway used his time spent in war as a way to transfer his own feeling and personal experiences in writing “Soldier’s Home.”

Throughout the short story “Soldier's Home”, Hemingway’s use of short syntax and repetitive diction conveys how when a soldier returns from war they often feel detached from the people and things around them. Krebs has returned from World War one, but later than everyone else, so they don’t seem to care for his stories, even when he lies. Before the war, Krebs wanted to drive the family car, but he was never allowed to. Now that he has returned from war, “it was still the same car” from when he left (Hemingway). Using short sentences, Hemingway demonstrates how after witnessing the intensity of war, the issues that used to be a big deal to Krebs are no longer of importance and he feels detached from the car. While walking through the town,

Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldiers Home” is about a young man named Krebs who is learning to adjust to society after his experience in Europe during World War I. Hemingway’s purpose for writing this story can be confusing and also very telling. I believe Krebs was not a soldier at all and in fact, deceives his family, his friends, and his community into believing he was an experienced soldier in World War I. At first glance, Krebs may be seen as a war hero. However, by observing the characteristics such as Kreb’s background, actions, motivation, and the author’s Implied Evaluation, we see that he is not a war hero at all.

In Soldier’s Home, Ernest Hemingway depicts Harold Krebs return home from World War I and the problems he faces when dealing with his homecoming and transition back towards a normal life. After the fighting overseas commenced, it took Krebs a year to finally leave Europe and return to his family in Oklahoma. Once home, he found it hard to talk about all he had seen in his tour of duty overseas, which should be attributed to the fact that he saw action in some of the bloodiest, most crucial battles towards the culmination of the war. Therefore, Krebs difficulty in acknowledging his past is because he was indeed a “good soldier” (139), whose efforts in order to survive “The Great War,” were not

The foundation of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is based on lies. Hemingway exposes the reality, or truth, of love and war by presenting the story of Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, lives ironically entrenched in lies. Henry in particular assumes a different role at every turn, pretending, for example, to be a soldier, a civilian, a doctor or Barkley's dead fiancé.

War is not a beautiful scene; the effects cause temporary and permanent damage to people, land, and infrastructures. In the short story “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I and Part II,” Hemingway expresses some emotional impacts of war, through the eyes of the main character Nick (Perkins 163). The story begins with the World War I veteran being dropped off by train in the vastly destroyed city of Seney. As he walked around, familiar scenes of war surround him. Although some things are harder than others to overlook, he continues until he locates a decent camping area. Throughout his time alone, Nick gives the outside world the perception of happiness. Yet, deep within, the psychological destruction has already been done. The emotional effects are haunting him, and no matter how hard he may want to forget, the memories are prominent in his thoughts. During the camping trip, Nick had trying times of disappointment, loss of control, guilt, and sorrow. Similar to many war veterans, Nick is suffering from the emotional baggage of war; there may not be any physical signs on the outside, but there is plenty of damage to the inside.

A. When Frederick Henry, Rinaldi and Gino were talking about war in their old room at red cross hospital, Henry confesses his embarrassment by the words that are used for war and are associated with it. Like Henry, Hemingway also thinks that “abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.” (A Farewell to Arms 161) i. This quote contributes to the fact that war is not as great and beneficial as people think it

In terms of characters and characterization (versus plot and theme), A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry and the way he grows and changes, lives and learns, in order to catch up to the Nurse Catherine Barkley with respect to experience and the wisdom that it brings. Especially considering that Ernest Hemingway has been accused of misogyny, it is fascinating to note that Catherine is the more mature of the two characters when they meet; therefore, it is Henry who must struggle to match her level of maturity. Returning from his leave near the start of the novel, Henry knows he should have traveled to the priest's home region of Abruzzi, a "place where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear and cold

The book “A Farewell to Arms takes place during World War I. The book is about Henry, a young English man, serving as an Italian ambulance driver, who learns what love and death are. Henry meets this English nurse,

Hemingway is not writing his works to be a anti-war view. He has experience of war he had parts in both the First and Second World War. His works are helping people to see the truth about war. One way a reader can see the truth is in A Farewell to Arms where Henry experiences the damage that it causes, through the artillery strike that destroys his knee. The injury affects him throughout the rest of the war/story. By the end of this story he losses his primary distraction from the war, Catherine. He is alone and scarred. The major tells Henry that it has

I have noticed that most of his books like The Old Man and the Sea have a very staccato and choppy style to it. The sentences are very short and the story itself is simple. But Farewell to Arms was the exception to this. Hemingway employs complex and descriptive paragraphs. For example, the line “There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain” on page 4 depicts a very depressing war season. This can also be interpreted as foreshadowing for the deaths of many soldiers. Chapter 1, compared to the rest of the book, is very descriptive and contains lots of imagery. Of course there is a reason for this; the function of the first chapter is to set up the tone and setting of the book. The tone of the first chapter is mainly a pessimistic and depressing one. The line “At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera” depicts the rain as the bad omen to everything. This is very important because rain is usually seen as a symbol of nature and growth. But in this novel, it means death and destruction. At the end of the chapter, the narrator mentions a cholera outbreak and notes that “only seven thousand died of it in the army.” The narrator is shown to have a sense of stoicism or numb to pain. How bad can things get if seven thousand deaths aren’t

Ernest Hemingway's WWI classic, A Farewell to Arms is a story of initiation in which the growth of the protagonist, Frederic Henry, is recounted. Frederic is initially a naïve and unreflective boy who cannot grasp the meaning of the war in which he is so dedicated, nor the significance of his lover's predictions about his future. He cannot place himself amidst the turmoil that surrounds him and therefore, is unable to fully justify a world of death and destruction. Ultimately, his distinction between his failed relationship with Catherine Barkley and the devastation of the war allows him to mature and arrive at the resolution that the only thing one can be sure of in the course of life is death