Thursday, April 8, 2010

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The setting is in Italy during the WW1. The protagonist of the story is Lieutenant Frederic Henry and the story goes from his view. He is a driver of the ambulance on the front and the headquarter. He meets a British woman named Catherine a nurse (not real one but does the same duty as they do) and gets along with her. She lost her love during the war and (I believe) still loves him. One time, she kissed Henry seeing him as her lost love. But Henry doesn't mind that and he thinks it is some kind of love game. Henry and Catherine gets along well though as friends. Their life is surrounded by the war and the imagery or the scene is full of guns and helmets and sand smoke the tank makes on the road.
Henry is not so passionate about anything particular but feels lonely and hollow when he doesn't see Catherine.
I like how Henry speaks in the novel. It's made up of easy words, sometimes confusing(because there are too much "and" and I forget what the description was before that and feel like running on sentence) but like the style better than Fitzgerald's.

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