Hemmingway: Catherine as a Code Hero

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 ambulance driver along the front lines. He soon meets Catherine and they begin to have feelings for each other. Soon after Frederick is injured by an artillery shell and sent to a hospital in Milan. Catherine who is a nurse in the English army transfers to the hospital to be with him. Throughout their time in Milan they begin to fall in love, and Catherine soon becomes pregnant with Frederick's child. Frederic eventually becomes healthy again and is sent back to the front lines of northern Italy. Shortly after he arrives the Austrians break the Italians front lines at the Battle of Caporetto and the Italians are forced to retreat. During the retreat many of the soldiers refuse to fight again, and the Italian battle police start executing

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is based largely on Hemingway's own personal experiences. The main character of the book, Frederic Henry experiences many of the same situations that Hemingway experienced. Some of these experiences are exactly the same, while some are less similar, and some events have a completely different outcome.

    Religion played a significant role in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The attitudes that the character had towards the war and life were closely associated with their views on religion. Due to extreme circumstances of war, moral standards were obscure for the characters. Almost everything related to the war violated the normal code of morality, which led many to feel disenchanted. Those who viewed the war as senseless had no faith in God or religion. For the character of Fredrick Henry it was clear that his faith in God was a subject of conflict. Henry was a character that understood religion, but did not love God. His love for Catherine was the most religious feeling that he

and “‘Good-night, Catherine,” I said out loud. ‘I hope you sleep well. If it’s too uncomfortable, darling, lie on the other side.” Henry is becoming secretly desperate to have contact with Catherine. He believes he knows what is happening in Catherine’s life, but it is only a reflection of what he is feeling for her.

“It could be worse, Passini said respectfully. ‘There is nothing worse than war… What is defeat? You go home.’” (Hemingway 53) A Farewell to Arms is a novel written by the acclaimed author Ernest Hemingway, and published in 1929. A Farewell to Arms takes place during the Italian Campaign of the First World War, an event that Hemingway personally experienced in much the same way as the main character Frederic Henry. The novel follows Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant and Ambulance driver, who is aiding the Italians in the war effort. Like a lot of Hemingway’s other novels, the novel centers around and deals heavily with the horror of war, and the effect it has on people, their morals, relationships, and views of love. In the novel, the main character Frederic Henry, is wounded in combat, and starts a relationship with a pretty English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The love between Frederic Henry and

In horrible situations people will do anything to cope with the pain, fear, and hopelessness they experience. In a Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, a young man named fredrick Henry is working as an ambulance driver in the Italian army. Fredrick is thrown into the horrors of war on a daily basis, and does what he can to deal with his emotions. Frederick Henry uses many different techniques in order to find some kind of inner peace and escape the horror of war.

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, is a story about love and war. Frederic Henry, a young American, works as an ambulance driver for the Italian army in World War I. He falls tragically in love with a beautiful English nurse, Miss Catherine Barkley. This tragedy is reflected by water. Throughout the novel Ernest Hemingway uses water as metaphors. Rivers are used as symbols of rebirth and escape and rain as tragedy and disaster, which show how water plays an important role in the story.

In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway uses his idea of the code hero to introduce us to an amazing character. Hemingway takes his own ideas and conveys them through Frederic Henry. During World War I Frederic Henry proves to us that war and lost love can change a strong and willing man. Most men are not willing to change and Frederic Henry realized that in order for him to survive the many problems he was faced with, he would have to become a more mature man, love and solider.

Catherine Barkley and Frederick Henry, the main characters in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms are two of the most self-absorbed characters I have ever come across. Frederick Henry thinks only of what he wants while Catherine worries only about what Frederick thinks and wants. They are constantly thinking only about themselves, which is why I believe that it was a good thing that the baby was not born alive. They are too absorbed in themselves to think of anyone else.

In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the main character, Lieutenant Fredric Henry, undergoes a dramatic change in perspective over the course of the novel. It is most interesting to see how the Lieutenant's views on religion change as he becomes more involved in the war.

Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, focuses on a man named Frederick Henry, an American Lieutenant fighting alongside Italians during World War I. During his stay with the Italian army, Henry goes through love, pain, and death of his comrades. He conforms to the military tradition because that is his duty; however, towards the end of the novel, Henry decides to abandon this conformity, and chooses to live for Catherine, his lover, and himself. This striking change of action and philosophy arises from Henry’s disgust with violence and war. The change does not occur immediately; instead, Henry peels off his militaristic self layer by layer, and Hemingway shows this in a very biblical manner. These spiritual peelings are majorly highlighted

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.

Initially, the relationship was a game of love with the sole purpose of distracting them from unpleasant circumstances. This passage demonstrates this game but also one of the illusions their entire relationship is built upon. Catherine and Henry are both acknowledging the lie. This dialogue establishes the importance of illusion in Catherine and Henry 's relationship. By accepting the illusion, Catherine furthers her position as and idealization rather than a realistic character. Catherine 's hair is a significant symbol in the novel. Henry 's description of her hair in chapter XVII has become a well-known passage. He says, "I would watch her while she kept very still and then take out the last two pins and it would all come down and she would drop her head and we would both be inside of it, and it was the feeling of inside a tent or behind a falls." (Hemingway 114). This description stands as a symbol of the couple 's isolation from the world. Henry allows himself to believe that they are protected from the outside world by something as delicate as hair. In this description we are reminded of Catherine 's alluring beauty as well as her innate ability to be exactly what Henry needs at any given point.

Ernest Hemmingway's " A Farewell To Arms" is a classic display of literature. The way he develops his characters is ingenious. In the beginning of the story I did not like the way it was going. As I read deeper into the book, "A Farewell To Arms" I discovered the complexity of the characters themselves. I discovered that Frederic Henry was a rather complex character as well. When you are finally given the full picture of Frederic Henry, you realize that he can be described in several different ways. First, Frederic Henry is a round and very dynamic character. You also realize that because Mr. Henry's mannerisms are so easily recognizable, he is a stock character as well. The point of view in the story is written in

Having this child with Henry gives Catherine something to look forward to, something to care for and something to love. Throughout Catherine’s pregnancy, she continued to exclaim she was fine. Catherine’s labor she explains was not that difficult but yet the end result was the loss of two lived instead of gaining one. This is another example of the bed of guns reference, Catherine probably could not imagine of losing her baby and her own life in birth. Hemmingway is very sly, he continues to portray the war as the big picture in this story but it is not, the “Bed of Guns” metaphor applies to everyone who plays a major role in this story. This “bed of guns” reference pertains to the fact that everyone is closer to death than they think and at any point in time their lives could be drastically cut short. Henry faced the horrific idea the entire time he spent in war. Catherine unfortunately had to experience this during birth one of the most joyous times for a woman, “And this was the price you paid for sleeping together” (Hemmingway 320). Occasionally there are mistakes that happen to take a person away from their loved ones and alter a person’s life forever. Ernest Hemmingway is a realest writer who explains to his readers to not only dissects his writings with only romanticism thoughts but realest emotion as well. Hemmingway