Three Victims in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
In Ernest Hemingway's novel, A Farewell to Arms many characters are represented in many different roles. Hemingway introduces patriots, pacifist, victims, and many other roles in his characters. Rinaldi, Lt. Henry, and Catherine Barkley are just three of these many characters whom take on the role of victims. Throughout the novel these characters take on many roles, but Hemingway represents these influential characters as victims.
Rinaldi, a surgeon in the Italian army falls victim to seduction and alcohol very early in the novel. Rinaldi is a very mischievous and oversexed character in Hemingway's novel. Although he is a skilled doctor Rinaldi becomes a drunk and a womanizer. He takes frequent visits to the local whorehouses and cannot overcome his love and need for sex. His love and need for sex causes Rinaldi to fall victim to sex as well as alcohol. The only way Rinaldi can overcome his need for sex is to drink. Drinking is Rinaldi's second favorite thing to do. When he is drinking he can forget about any emotional attachment to his women. Often in the novel Rinaldi is drunk, and found begging Lt. Henry to have a few drinks with him.
Lieutenant Henry is a young American Ambulance driver serving in the Italian army. Henry is sent to the war front in the spring where he meets Catherine Barkley. Lt. Henry and Catherine fall in love just before he is sent to battle. Lt. Henry is wounded on the battlefield and is sent to recover in Milan. Catherine is transferred to Milan and takes care of Henry. Henry falls victim to both the war and Catherine simultaneously. The war causes him physical pain and Catherine causes him emotional pain by taken his heart. Henry's leg heals and the army grants him three weeks convalescence leave, and then he must return to the front. Catherine reveals to him that she is pregnant before Henry returns to the front.
In the last two books of A Farwell to Arms, there are many passages spoken by Henry, two passages the best illustrate what Hemingway believes to be true about man and the way the universe operates are on pages 249 and 327. ...
Hemingway created many highly acclaimed works such as The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farwell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Across the River and into the Trees (1950), and the Old Man and the Sea (1952). ...
Fighting on the Italian front inspired the plot of, A Farewell to Arms in 1929. ... In 1928 they moved to Key West, where they had two sons. 1928 was a year of both success and sorrow for Hemingway; in this year, A Farewell to Arms was published and his father Clarence Hemmingway committed suicide (Resource Center). ... In Florida he wrote A Farwell To Arms, which was published in 1929. ...
A Farewell to Arms is an intriguing novel of a soldier, his relationship with his significant other, and his struggle to survive the grueling aspects of war. In the beginning, this soldier is introduced; his name is Lieutenant Fredric Henry. Henry starts the story by describing his current situation...
Themes of Ernest Hemingway's Novels Few people have had the chance to experience what Ernest Hemingway did. His life was far from boring. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, and became one of the twentieth-centuries best writers. During his lifetime, he saw five ...
The historical novel, "A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway in 1929, uses a minor character as a foil to show the strengths and weaknesses of the main character. Lieutenant Fredric Henry is an American ambulance driver for the Italian army during World War I. Henry meets an English nurse, Cather...