Annotated Bibliography Of Ernest Hemingway 's ' A Farewell Of Arms '

Ernest Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms, a celebrated historical fiction, amidst a time of war and personal suffering. Hemingway believed at this time that “life is a tragedy that can only have one end” (Hemingway, VIII). He continues further, calling war a “constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime” (Hemingway, IX). Hemingway also suffered at home, in addition to his issues regarding the state of the world. His wife had just endured a difficult pregnancy and delivery, which contributed to the last bitter chapter of his story. Keeping in mind the tortured and surly mental state of Hemingway, it is difficult to swallow the idea that he would write a wholesome, well founded love story that attracts people. To some readers, A Farewell to Arms tells of a whirlwind romance between an ambulance driver and a nurse that is based on an unbreakable foundation of love, trust, magnetism, and compassion. Anxious modernists, like Trevor Dodman who are cited in Joel Armstrong’s nonfiction text, will come up with a remarkably different outlook on this tragedy. With aid from “‘A Powerful Beacon’ Love Illuminating Human Attachment in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms”, the loveless relationship between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley will be seen as rushed, meaningless, and mentally destructive to the parties involved.

Three characters who names describe their personalities are the youth (Henry), the tall soldier (Jim), and the loud soldier (Wilson). The youth describes Henry so much. Before the war he was young and cocky, believing that war was like a romance when “He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life- of vague and bloody conflicts that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire”(Crane 7), but these young childish dreams soon get crushed when he sees the horrors of the war and runs from it in fear. “So came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed” (Crane 245). The war changes this naive youth into a strong, courageous young man. The tall soldier fits Jim so well because Jim has a large impact on Henry.

great love story of a man, Frederic Henry, and a woman, Catherine Barkley, that are in a

The world contains many recurring events that remind humans of morals or things that are important. In the novel “A Farewell to Arms” many events come again and again. Usually, these events that repeat or come again have a deeper message inscribed in the text. This is not unlike whereas the novel “The Great Gatsby” has weather that unfailingly matches up with the tone and mood of the text. The author Ernest Hemingway has created “A Farewell to Arms” with a motif that is very precise. The motif of rain and nature in Hemingway’s novel divulges that there are things that a human beings cannot control; making them recognize what they lack and how life can bring sadness.

For many soldiers and volunteers, life on the fronts during the war means danger, and there are few if any distractions from its horrors. Each comradeship serves as a divergence from the daily atrocities and makes life tolerable. Yet, the same bonds that most World War literature romantically portrays can be equally negative. James Hanley’s “The German Prisoner”, shows the horrifying results of such alliances, while “Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemmingway reveal that occasionally, some individuals like Lieutenant Henri seek solidarity outside the combat zone.

Tommo, our narrator in Private Peaceful, faces difficult times when he is forced to leave his loved ones to fight for his country in the First World War. Jim Macpherson is the protagonist in "The Best Christmas Present in the World" and also has to leave his friends and family for the

Ernest Hemingway’s story, A Farewell to Arms, is a story of war and its effects on individuals and the relationships between them. Hemingway writes about how war may create stronger social bonds while simultaneously degrading societal integrity. Whether it is the social integrity of individual character or the society as a whole, both are degraded within A Farewell to Arms. A theme Hemingway conveys throughout A Farewell to Arms is the uninviting truth of war. The uninviting truth is that war only brings tragedy and death. Hemingway conveys his message by using the symbols of rain, the stars of officer’s, the hair of Catherine and Henry’s beard, and Catherine herself.

Us reader first embark on Henry’s journey when we learn he is an ambulance driver for World War I, this is much like author

The story shadows a young man and how the war has an effect on him. In this novel, Crane focuses not only on the characters’ actions, but the characters intellectual feelings. By him doing this he leaves it up to the reader of the novel to judge Henry Fleming the main character’s response to his experience in war. The novel symbolizes naturalism or the pessimistic version of realism that asserts that most individuals are without freedom, which they are at the mercy of larger forces like war, and environment. Based off of the main character Henry Fleming a romantic, war and environment becomes the larger force in his efforts to become a man. The war scolds Henry into a person that he only dreamed of being by forcing him to take risks, and make decisions based of his greater judgment. The environment that the war took place in did not only change who Henry was, but it made him be more open to his surroundings and realize that the war he entered is not a

A young American Lieutenant named Frederic Henry drives an ambulance in Italy during World War I. He falls in love with Catherine, a British nurse working in a small hospital. He sustains severe injuries when a mortar shell explodes over his dugout.

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1889. He raised in the small town of Oak Park in Illinois. His mother was a musician and growing up forced young Ernest to take several hours of music lessons, but he hated it, this caused Hemingway to hate his mother for most of this life. While his father on the other hand, would take him fishing and hunting in Northern Michigan. After High school he became a journalist at The Kansas City Star and discovered his love of writing. When WWI came around he decided he wanted help. Hemingway ended up in Italy as an ambulance driver and was wounded by a mortar after bravery delivering supplies to the men on the front lines. His experience in the war is what inspired him to write A Farewell to Arms. After

Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms covers a romance that takes place during World War I. The novel itself came out shortly after the war, and was the first of Hemingway’s books to become a best-seller. Essentially, the novel contrasts the horrors of war with the romance of Henry and Catherine. Throughout the plot, Hemingway, a World War I veteran himself, uses the events of the book to make a statement about his thoughts on war. The core message of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is that war damages the soldiers who fight in it both physically and emotionally, which is primarily illustrated by the number of deaths caused directly and indirectly by the war, the actions Henry is forced to take over the course of the book, and Henry’s growing cynicism towards war.

The differences between Frederic Henry’s expectations and the realities of war are striking. This can be attributed to Henry’s lack of experience. Hemingway does not explain why Frederic Henry, the book’s American protagonist, has joined the Italian Army. Americans may have joined European armed forces before war was declared during the First World War for several reasons. Thrill seekers may have joined to find adventure and action, while others had similar ideologies who hoped to help in the struggle, and others still had family back in Europe whom they wanted to help. Which of these could classify Lt. Henry is up to the reader since Hemingway does not tell us, though it is most likely he joined to seek adventure since he did not care about the outcome of the war and he was not close to his family. “He is, after all, a soldier who is only an ambulance driver; and one who has seen no action” (Wagner-Martin 13). Given

Frederic chooses to spend his time in the city rather than Abruzzi, although that is where he "had wanted to go…" (Hemingway 13). Frederic realizes that there is a moral and religious way of life, which the priest represents, and he respects these values of the priest. He acknowledges the fact that the priest has a code to live by. On the other shoulder sits Rinaldi, the satisfied, self-assured surgeon with whom Frederic also tries to identify. Rinaldi seems fulfilled, but as the war progresses he falls into a world of despair and disease. Although he cannot see it, Rinaldi too closely resembles Frederic's dilemma and therefore is unable to tutor him (Waldhorn 69-70). Tremendously significant, Frederic Henry's exchanges with the priest and Rinaldi play a strong role in his development because he is unable to solely identify with either of them.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is a book about love and war set in Italy during WWI. The book begins with Lieutenant Frederick Henry working as an