Agnes von Kurowsky

that’s how Frederic Henry came along. Frederic Henry is an American ambulance driver for the Italians that loves Catherine Barkley. Catherine chose Henry and this divides Hemingway from the character he created. Hemingway’s war nurse was named Agnes von Kurowsky and she

for the Red Cross in the Italian infantry during World War I and was wounded just before his 19th birthday. After being wounded, the injuries he sustained landed him in a hospital in Milan. There in the hospital, Hemingway met an older nurse named Agnes von Kurowky whom he quickly fell in love with. Consequently, this is where the similarities between Ernest Hemingway and Frederick Henry begin. (“Ernest Hemingway.” Bio…) A Farewell to Arms is the story of Frederick Henry; an American who is a Red Cross

Ernest Hemingway pulled from his past present experiences to develop his own thoughts concerning death, relationships, and lies. He then mixed these ideas, along with a familiar setting, to create a masterpiece. One such masterpiece written early in Hemingway's career is the short story, "Indian Camp." "Indian Camp" was originally published in the collection of "in Our Time" in 1925. A brief summary reveals that the main character, a teenager by the name of Nick, travels

relationship was not a success. Similar to Fredric, his relationship did not end in a success because Catherine died. Heartbroken to lose his only love, Hemingway still “kept Agnes’ letters all his life. Among the many he had loved and won, she was a perennial reminder of one woman he had loved and lost” (Baker 171). Both Agnes and Hemingway went back to America, but at different times. The two never saw each other again after the war. Hemingway and Frederic met their beloved nurses in Italy when they

The 1910s and 1920s were a time of change around the world. The death of Franz Ferdinand of Austria signaled the beginning of a large-scale war, later referred to as World War I or WWI. Many nations in Europe were involved as they had all signed pacts with each other pledging to go to war should a fellow nation be attacked. Eventually, Italy was dragged into the war, but of all of the Allied Nations, they had one of the most poorly trained and poorly equipped fighting forces (Simkin). Before

To Live and Love Amongst the War Front: Examining the Backdrop of A Farewell to Arms For centuries’ tradition now, war legends and stories have been a beloved genre of literature in a nationalistic United States. For this reason, countless war novels are deemed classics. Yet, A Farewell To Arms, written by “lost generation” author Ernest Hemingway, is quite possibly the most renowned to date. World War I had potential unlike any other the world had seen before. The technological advancement society

Ernest Hemingway was a renaissance man whose accomplishments include a Bronze Star for his bravery during World War II in 1947, the Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and finally the Nobel Prize in literature for "his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”. Hemingway’s legacy as one of the key figure of “The Lost Generation” of great artists was solidified

is an ambulance driver in the Italian army, just as Hemingway himself was an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, serving in Italy. Hemingway also fell in love with a nurse, however her name was not Catherine Barkley, as it is in the novel, it was Agnes von

The 1932 novel, A Farewell to Arms, is the result of then years’ digestion of his experiences in the First World War. The central character is Frederick Henry, a young American who is in Italy when breaks out and who enlists with the Italian ambulance unit. He is wounded, and his convalescence coincides with a love affair between him and the British nurse, Catherine Barclay. Henry returns to the front but he witnesses a chaotic retreat, and the insanity of such a world makes him want to rejoin Catherine

There were nearly 10 million men dead of the 65 million men who fought in World War I (Harden). Frederic Henry is the driving code hero in A Farewell to Arms through the war as he shows much courage through the warzone, powers courageously through a struggle to validate himself, and acts in a realistic manner through his struggle with Catherine. Through his injuries from the blast, Frederic Henry shows that he is the main code hero as he exhibits courage by being eager to rush out of the hospital