Bedrooms can be the loneliest places on earth. The frailty of setting in the novel is magnified when Frederic and Catherine get to Switzerland. And it is. This mirrors the disbelief that many encountered when faced with the reality of World War I , both during and after. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. As the lines between scripted and genuine emotions begin to blur, Henry and Catherine become tangled in their love for each other. He tries to plan a trip with Catherine, who reveals to him that she is pregnant.
The following day, Henry is diagnosed with jaundice, and Miss Van Campen, the superintendent of the hospital, accuses him of bringing the disease on himself through excessive drinking. As they part, Catherine and Henry pledge their mutual devotion. Henry travels to the front, where Italian forces are losing ground and manpower daily.
When word comes that German troops are breaking through the Italian lines, the Allied forces prepare to retreat. Henry leads his team of ambulance drivers into the great column of evacuating troops. The men pick up two engineering sergeants and two frightened young girls on their way. Henry and his drivers then decide to leave the column and take secondary roads, which they assume will be faster. When one of their vehicles bogs down in the mud, Henry orders the two engineers to help in the effort to free the vehicle.
When they refuse, he shoots one of them. Gorizia is an Italian village where Henry spends time in — He describes it as being a nice village that had not been destroyed too much since the enemy still wanted to be able to come visit it once the war had ended.
Henry meets Catherine in Gorizia. Pavla is the place where Henry goes to help provide medical care for the wounded during an offensive attack. He is wounded there and watches a fellow ambulance driver die beside him. Henry is sent to the American hospital in Milan after he is wounded.
Catherine is transferred there and the two spend time at restaurants and other social spots in town. Their relationship is able to flourish in the major city that is set far away from the battlefront. Browse all BookRags Study Guides. It merely focuses on the war's tragic aftermath. He could also produce a big book in the grand tradition of the nineteenth century novel. In retrospect, it is no surprise that A Farewell to Arms is the book that made Ernest Hemingway famous.
As Robert Penn Warren wrote in his Introduction to a later edition of the novel, " A Farewell to Arms more than justified the early enthusiasm of the connoisseurs of Hemingway and extended this reputation from them to the public at large.
A Farewell to Arms feels less propagandistic than Hemingway's other great war story, For Whom the Bell Tolls — which relies partly on flashback for its effect and also descends at times into the stylistic mannerism that marred the author's later work. In fact, the only other volume in the Hemingway oeuvre that stands up to a comparison with A Farewell to Arms is the writer's debut story collection, In Our Time.
That book's postwar tales, "Soldier's Home" and "Big Two-Hearted River," can almost be read as sequels to A Farewell to Arms , or at least to the events that inspired the novel. Previous Book Summary. Next Character List. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway.
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