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Farewell To Arms Weather

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Weather has long played an important role in literary works. Not only does it establish a sense of gloominess, but it can also have many hidden meanings, be it good or bad. Ernest Hemingway, however, takes a much different yet darker approach in his piece, A Farewell to Arms. Thomas C. Foster’s chapter on the importance of weather gives many insights to what effect rain has in a literary work. For one, rain may bring men together in “uncomfortable circumstances” (Foster 71). In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway associates rain to death. Starting from the very first chapter, he makes this evident. For instance, Frederic Henry remarks that “with the rain came the cholera” and “only seven thousand died of it in the army” (Hemingway 4). Another

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