A Farewell to Arms Summary
Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. After a brief stint as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, Hemingway joined a volunteer Am... Read more

Biography EssayErnest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a ... Read more

Few writers have made their mark on American letters and American culture like Ernest Hemingway. Bursting on the American literary scene in 1925 with the publication of the short story collection In O... Read more

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a literary poseur... Read more

In the following essay, the Priestley recommends Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to readers while expressing some reservations about its franker aspects. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to ... Read more

In the following essay, Schneider compares A Farewell to Arms to a lyric poem, where plot, character, and images all contribute perfectly to a feeling of hopelessness and desolation. In a well-known e... Read more

In the following essay, Carson explores the ways in which A Farewell to Arms fuses a naturalistic approach with compressed, symbolic language. Edmund Wilson proclaimed in 1931 that the ‘literar... Read more

In the following essay, Bell uses drafts and revisions of the novel to show that, while not autobiographical in every detail, A Farewell to Arms is highly realistic as a reflection of Hemingway'... Read more

In the following essay, Norris uses reader-response criticism to argue that Hemingway uses the love story in the novel to turn readers' attention from the brutal realities of war. The project o... Read more

In the following essay, Stoltzfus presents a complex analysis of the use of language in A Farewell to Arms, with particular reference to the way in which Hemingway's use of metaphor and shiftin... Read more

In the following essay, Herrick raises questions about the propriety of certain frank sexual references in A Farewell to Arms, comparing them unfavorably with similarly explicit passages in Erich Mari... Read more

In the following review, originally published in 1929, Hartley states that A Farewell to Arms is particularly interesting because of its account of war on the Italian front. Mr. Hemingway is a novelis... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1934, Lewis accuses Hemingway of borrowing the style of Gertrude Stein, purveying brutish speech patterns, and championing the unthinking masses, but at... Read more

In the following essay, Hackett asserts that Hemingway's hero in the novel represents a false concept of male dignity. In one detail time has dulled the luster of Ernest Hemingway's A Fa... Read more

In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway introduces to the reader a character by the name of Frederick Henry. Henry had a goal to become a hero, and throughout the novel I feel that he proved he was.... Read more

Rain "You're not really afraid of the rain are you"" "Not when I'm with you." "Why are you afraid of it"" "I don't know." "Tell me." "Don't make me." "Tell me." "No." "Tell me." "All right. ... Read more

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the great novels of World War I. It introduces the theme of love, while war occupies all of Europe. It is a complex novel with man... Read more

Rain: symbolizes death because every time rain is mentioned it is followed by death. In the beginning, the author states that when rain comes so does cholera, a deadly disease that kills. In addition,... Read more

Author Ernest Hemingway uses many different symbols in his novel A Farewell to Arms. One of the most used symbols is nature. Nature varies from the different seasons to weather. He uses symbo... Read more

Chapter I: In the First chapter of this novel I am a little surprised at the description of the area that the main character is in. I expected more from the author. It is described as a battle zone a... Read more

A Farewell to Arms is a romance novel that takes place during the First World War in the year 1916. The setting plays a key role in the novel because it contains both mountains and plains. Each of ... Read more

In this world in which everything ends and death is inevitable, it is common to search for some type of comfort. There are two main things that people rely on for this feeling of safety and happiness... Read more

A Farewell to Arms Book Notes is a free study guide on A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page Plot Summary ... Read more