A Farewell to Arms Review

* Code hero- Man (or woman) who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful. *Sensual Pleasure emphasis, Need for Order, Honesty

* The “nada” (or “nothing”) then focuses on man’s confrontation with the absence of God, the indifference and seeming hostility of the universe, and with the absence of purpose, order, meaning, and value in the universe and in human life. *Restless (awake at nighttime, sleeps during the day)

* MOTIFS/SYMBOLS

* Rain

* Masculinity

* Games and Divertissement

* Loyalty vs. Abandonment

* Illusions and Fantasies

* Catherine’s Hair

* **Allusion made from Julius Caesar

* MAJOR CHARACTER ANALYSIS

* Lieutenant Frederic Henry -  The novel’s narrator and protagonist. A young American ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I, Henry meets his military duties with quiet stoicism. He displays courage in battle, but his selfless motivations undermine all sense of glory and heroism, abstract terms for which Henry has little patience. His life lacks real passion until he meets the beautiful Catherine Barkley.

* Catherine Barkley -  An English nurse’s aide who falls in love with Henry. Catherine is exceptionally beautiful and possesses, perhaps, the most sensuously described hair in all of literature. When the novel opens, Catherine’s grief for her dead fiancé launches her headlong into a playful, though reckless, game of seduction. Her feelings for Henry soon intensify and become more complicated, however, and she eventually swears lifelong fidelity to him.

* Rinaldi -  A surgeon in the Italian army. Mischievous, wry, and oversexed, Rinaldi is Henry’s closest friend. Although Rinaldi is a skilled doctor, his primary practice is seducing beautiful women. When Henry returns to Gorizia, Rinaldi tries to whip up a convivial atmosphere.

The priest -  A kind, sweet, young man who provides spiritual...