Ernest Hemingway A Farewell To Arms !?

Question

Ernest Heming Way A Farewell To Arms?

Where Was The Setting Of The Book? Whcih character was your favorite and why?

What three events happened in the story?

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Answer 1

I haven’t read A Farewell to Arms, so I can’t help with details, but there is good information at these sites that should help you put your answer together.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/farewell/

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/t...

http://www.homework-online.com/afta/inde...

http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/engl...

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitN...

http://www.neabigread.org/books/farewell...

Answer 2

The novel is told through the point of view of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I.

Rinaldi - Hemingway's lean prose style coupled with Frederic Henry's matter-of-fact narration does not yield many metaphors in A Farewell to Arms, but in a sense Rinaldi and the priest come to represent two aspects of Frederic's character. Rinaldi's boisterous and passionate personality is in tune with Frederic's character when we first meet him as a young man with no personal attachments and a debaucherous disposition. When he returns from his first leave and describes the worldly pleasures of Milan, Rinaldi shares in his friend's delight as it reaffirms the drinking and whoring they have enjoyed together before. The priest, during this time, is cowed by the officers at the mess and is timid in his friendship with Frederic. After Frederic has fallen in love with Catherine and experienced a true love, it is the priest with whom he identifies and finds an outlet for his more serious musings. Significantly, Rinaldi is suffering during this time. He blunders in making light of Frederic's feelings for Catherine. He has become cynical and morose. He makes a drunken scene at the mess and fears he has contracted syphilis. He is jealous of Frederic's love and he privately confesses that his only pleasures remain in his work and in drinking and whoring, neither of which appear to have the power to sustain him.

1. Henry meets Catherine Barkley and their relationship begins.

2. Henry returns to his unit, but not long after, the Austro-Germans break through the Italian lines, and the Italians retreat.

3. Henry and Catherine live a quiet life in the mountains until she goes into labor. After a long and painful labor, their son is stillborn. Catherine begins to hemorrhage and soon dies, leaving Henry to return to their hotel in the rain.