"A Farewell To Arms," by Ernest Hemingway can be seen as the wartime version of "Romeo & Juliet"," as it's a story of unlikely love. ... Exposition Frederic Henry is a young American ambulance driver during WWI, serving in the Italian Army. ...
Hemingway's "farewell to arms" is clear evidence of these new beliefs. ... In a Farewell to Arms Hemingway uses painful experiences of his own life and places them in the novel. ... Henry in chapter 26 says to the priest that he no longer believes in victory this attitude was the general feeling that most of the people felt after WWI when they were left wondering and lost. ... For most of the Lost Generation, love, hope and god were unknown to them after WWI. ...
This point is evident in some of his most famous works that helped him to gain acclaimed success: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... "A Farewell to Arms" and "for whom the bell tolls" show that Hemingway's "stories cannot be taken face value," There are hidden deeper meanings"(Sanderson 1) Very often, one of the characters in Hemingway's stories represented Himself, and his own life. ... A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929, and it is arguably one of the best WWI books, revolving around the passionate but doomed affair between an American a...
He has written several novels such as, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. ... Hemingway signed up as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross during WWI (Wilson 2). ... The symbolism in A Farewell to Arms is very much apparent. ... Another one of the symbolisms in A Farewell to Arms is when Henry tries to escape from the Italian army by jumping off one of the ships the army was traveling on and running away from the army. ...
