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Book 1, Chapter 1 Summary
It is late summer in the year of 1916, and Lieutenant Henry, an American ambulance driver, reflects that the year has seen many troops pass by the small Italian village where he is posted, but that things were going well for no one. When cholera passed through the area during winter, nobody was surprised, and there was general relief that only 7,000 soldiers died from it.
Book 1, Chapter 1 Analysis
The first chapter of Book 1 is short, and gives only a brief description of the surroundings of the area and the constant fighting. We are also at once acquainted with Ernest Hemingway's disconnected, terse prose style of writing for which he is famous. This style can be seen throughout the entire novel, and the short declarative sentences in which he writes add to the desperation and high emotional impact of this vivid love story that takes place during World War I. Hemingway himself...
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