Farewell To Arms :: essays research papers

The story A F arwell to Arms, (1929) by Ernest Hemingway, takes place on the Italian front of World War I. Fredrick Henry is an American Lieutenant who drives an ambulance for the Italian army. On his leave time he often visits whorehouses and gets drunk. While chip in the war, his knee gets injured and he has to go to the hospital in Milan where he meets a British nurse named Catherine Barkley and falls in spot with her. During hotshot of their many sexual affairs, Catherine gets pregnant. Fredrick greatly wants to desert the war because he is tired of seeing Italian solders killing each other. Fredrick and Catherine then bilk to Switzerland by rowing across a lake. After they escape to Switzerland, Catherine has the baby, notwithstanding during labor there are complications and she must deliver by having cesarian section section. Other problems arise, she begins hemorrhaging, and dies. The baby also dies from the birth. Although this novel is not perfect, he uses actually elaborate writing, and also shows how important it is to have good morals.&8220I love to take her hair down and she sat on the bed and unploughed very still, except suddenly she would dip down to kiss me term I was doing it...inside a tent or behind a falls. This novel is very graphic when it comes to them having sex or while he is at the whorehouses during his leave time. Many things in this novel are inappropriate for children and adults. In more ways then one, Hemingway didn&8217t like women very much, one example is in chapter nine where he takes page and a one-half to describe how a solder dies who is not a main lineament in the book. But in chapter forty-one, he only uses approximately trine lines to tell that Catharine dies, and she is a main character. In this novel there are a few things wrong.&8220The plain was rich with crops there were many orchards of increase trees...but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming. The purification and ch oice of diction in this book is extraordinary. Hemingway uses so many rowing to describe the little things in this book. &8220There was a great scatter and I saw the starshells go up and burst...biting his arm, the stump of his leg twitching, is other great example of how he uses much elaboration in the novel.