Love and War in A Farewell to Arms War is a terrible event that can have a drastic effect on the soldiers who participate. ... In his novel, A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway exhibits this destruction with the theme of love as a response to the horrors of war and the world. ... "A Farewell to Arms was dominated by an atmosphere of Gothic ruin, boredom, sterility, and decay" (Aldridge 231). ... Catherine's hair is a symbol of the safe haven love can create in times of strife. ... Hemingway purposely makes the final word of A Farewell to Arms "rain", a reminder of the destruction ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School