War Life and Trauma in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
Abstract
This paper provides a thorough analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929), which appears to present two distinct images of the war: one at its beginning, when soldiers are fervently optimistic, idealistic, romantic, and hopeful, and another at its conclusion, when they have firsthand experience of the conflict and have grown realistically disillusioned. A Farewell to Arms is a book about World War I that perfectly captures the essence of the American attitude to the conflict. Its protagonist, Frederic Henry, is a real American who is on a quest to defend democracy for the weaker Italians, using his sense of superior knowledge.
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