Analysis Of A Farewell To Arms By Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway got divorce from Hadley in 1927, after he had fallen in an affair with Pauline Pfeiffer to be his second wife and to publish his second collection of short stories Men without women in 1927 and regarding this collection Jeffrey Meyers notes “It is composed of thirteen short stories, Most of which have been published before. They are sad and terrible stories; The author’s enormous appetite for life seems to have been somehow appeased (Meyers, Jeffrey, 1982, p.109). Pfeiffer bore him two sons and with her he moved to Key West, Florida to become an expert fisherman and in 1928 he finished his greatest novel “A Farewell to Arms”. In 1929, Hemingway researched his work “Death in the Afternoon” which glorifies bullfighting. It is a

For instance, Hemingway described the Irati Valley in his fairly novel The Sun Also Rises. “The trees were big, and the foliage was thick but it was not gloomy. There was no undergrowth, only the smooth grass, very green and very fresh” (The Sun also Rises, p.120.). What comes next is the sense of fact which is part of the sense of place and the combination between them brings a dramatic life. Facts stated as they were at that time. Hemingway stated facts in some of his early works for the purpose, he apparently intended but for others it seems difficult to understand the purpose beyond. The sense of place and the sense of fact are indispensible to Hemingway’s art but unless the sense of scene runs through them, they will be under inertness. Hemingway with his skilful works brings to the true place and facts the creative imagination. He wrote what he saw and felt in a way that the reader feels as if he is part of the incident or share it with other

In his novel Farewell to the Arms, Hemingway tried to convey two aspects of what is immediate and what is ultimate and the necessity of the individual to seek for the ultimate goal and thus Chaman Nahal states that “Hemingway pessimism is pitched not against the immediate but against the ultimate” (Nahal, 1971, p.77). The death of the heroin Catherine is the victory of ultimate and never cancels out the meaning of her life and what she passed through with Henry Frederick. The individual as a protagonist is the unit of ultimate moral responsibility. He didn’t focus on the groups but he used them as forces lacking specific responsibility and demanding definite character who can achieve that moral responsibility, which the author use it as a projection of his own condition. Most of the protagonists in Hemingway’s novels reflected that masculinity within dignity and the necessity of the individual to be hard to him and never surrender to the illusion. Jake Barnes, Fredric Henry, Colonel Cantwell, and Santiago knew what kind of wound they suffer and what moral responsibility they have to achieve and have the ability to discipline themselves toward a solid basis to do the ultimate goal or create a new code of