Rather, he indicts the world at large for its atmosphere of destruction. In Hemingway's real life, the nurse in question was named Agnes von Kurowsky. A Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. Henry flirts with the idea of religion with a series of doubts and questions. Catherine delivers a stillborn baby boy and, later that night, dies of a hemorrhage.
In 1927 Hemingway published a short story collection, Men Without Women. In 1934, Hemingway went on safari in Africa, which gave him new themes and scenes on which to base The Snows of Kilamanjaro and The Green Hills of Africa, published in 1935. Although Henry is sometimes plagued by guilt for abandoning the men on the front, the two succeed in living a beautiful, peaceful life. He can no longer remain a part of something that is so disorderly and so, he deserts the Italian army. Henry learns that Catherine is in the Italian town of Stresa, a resort town near the Swiss border. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley.
Henry travels to the front, where Italian forces are losing ground and manpower daily. A new wide road was being laid which would go over the mountain and zigzag down to the bridge. He is in Italy during the war. Though, of course, Frederic isn't pleased when he gets injured in the war, he is happy when he finds out the hospital he's been sent to recover at is the same one where Catherine is stationed. Lesson Summary Though Ernest Hemingway set his novel A Farewell to Arms around World War I, it is not a book that glorifies war.
In the beginning of the novel, Henry is a drifter unconsciously searching for a meaning in life. He befriends a priest because he admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle. Catherine dies in the end of this book. He was buried in Ketchum. So they make him go back out to war as soon as he gets well. In 1950 he published Across the River and Into the Trees, though it was not received with the usual critical acclaim.
This story takes place during World War I. During the following months, his relationship with Catherine intensifies. Clarence Hemingway had been suffering from hypertension and diabetes. . There, however, Catherine and her baby die during , leaving Henry desolate.
On their first meeting, she tells him the sad story of her fiancé who was killed in the war, whose riding crop she still carries. Now the Germans are fighting the Italians. Then some other ambulance driver shoots him some more. On the Italy-Austrian front of World War I, Lt. Rinaldi drags Henry to the hospital so he can meet Catherine Barkley, the girl Rinaldi loves. Catherine delivers a stillborn baby boy and, later that night, dies of a hemorrhage. He tells her he is going to the front lines.
She called him darling, cried, and then asked him to be good to her. Although he has no intention of loving her, he decides he will try to learn the rules of her game and play it. Before she meets Henry, she was engaged. He spends the evening with his fellow officers, who mock the regiment's priest for his celibacy. Both the character of Frederic and Ernest Hemingway himself worked as ambulance drivers for the Italian Army in World War I, got injured and fell in love with the nurse who cared for them.
When it looks like he must either escape or be killed, Frederic flees from the retreat, and deserts his post in the army. Then in a battle, Henry gets injured. Later, the trigger-happy Italian rear guard mistakenly shoots one of the Italian drivers. At the beginning of the novel, the war is winding down with the onset of winter, and Henry arranges to tour Italy. In this year, A Farewell to Arms was published, and his father committed suicide. She startled him by saying that they are both playing a dirty game, a rotten game: she was truly in love and he was only pretending.
She is a prude believing in morals etc. She mourns the death of her fiancé from the war last year, and she eagerly enters the pleasurable diversion the game of love offers with Henry. Henry reunites with Catherine in the town of Stresa. They represent only one thing with no false hopes or pretenses. Henry sits on the floor. This is the significance of the title, A Farewell to Arms.