Love And War In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

A FAREWELL TO ARMS For years, Hemingway had been trying to write about his war experience of 1918 and to dramatize within it his own wounding of his love affair with Agnes Von Kurowsky. He has been thought to tell a short story of love and war but then with Fitzgerald’s advice to write about something hurts in life, he set out his third novel A Farewell to Arms. The novel is the second major one and is based as it happened to his first major one The Sun Also Rises on autobiographical experience. A Farewell to Arms has got its first publication in 1929 with six parts serial publication in Scribner’s Magazine with a narrative begins in late summer of 1915, as World War I heats up on the north eastern Italian front, and ends in March 1918 with the death in childbirth of the novel’s heroine,

Frederic’s knee wound is analogous to Heming – way’s, but not the head injury” (Waldhorn, 2002, p.113). Hemingway’s participation in the war has enabled him to reflect in a literary reality the subject matter of violence, love, and death. He considered his experience of war as a great adventure to shape the literary reality of his writings and to recognize him from other writers who didn’t experience it; he once told Fitzgerald that “It [the war] was one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write truly of, those writers who had not seen it were always very jealous and tried to make it seems an important or abnormal or a disease as a subject, while really it was just something quite irreplaceable that they had missed” (Green Hills of Africa, 1965,