He wanted readers to experience the events of the novel as though they were actually witnessing them. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway provided a realistic and unromanticized account of war.
He returns to their hotel alone, in the rain. Soon after, Catherine begins to hemorrhage and dies with Henry by her side. A long and painful labour ensues, and Henry wonders if Catherine will survive. She and Henry take a taxi to the hospital. Late one night Catherine goes into labour. The couple pass several happy months in a wooden house near Montreux. They decide to allow Henry and Catherine-who masquerade as architecture and art students seeking “winter sport”-to stay in Switzerland. Upon arrival, Henry and Catherine are arrested by Swiss border authorities. Once there, he reunites with Catherine, and the couple flee Italy by crossing the border into neutral Switzerland. He soon learns that she has been sent to Stresa, some 95 miles (153 km) away. Back in Milan, Henry searches for Catherine. During the Italian retreat after the disastrous Battle of Caporetto (1917), he deserts the army, just barely escaping execution by Italian military police. During his absence, morale on the front had significantly worsened. What was Arthur Conan Doyle’s actual profession? Who invented the historical novel? Settle in for this novel-length quiz and find out what you know.Īfter the hospital superintendent, Miss Van Campen, discovers that Henry has been hiding alcohol in his hospital room, he is sent back to the front. Catherine soon becomes pregnant by Henry but refuses to marry him. Henry admits that he has fallen in love with her. During this time their relationship deepens. After Henry is badly wounded by a trench mortar shell near the Isonzo River in Italy, he is brought to a hospital in Milan, where he is eventually joined by Catherine. Although she still mourns the death of her fiancé, who was killed in the war, Catherine encourages Henry’s advances. While working with the Italian ambulance service during World War I (1914–18), the American lieutenant Frederic Henry meets the English nurse Catherine Barkley. The plot of A Farewell to Arms is fairly straightforward. A Farewell to Arms is particularly notable for its autobiographical elements. Its depiction of the existential disillusionment of the “ Lost Generation” echoes his early short stories and his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926).
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