A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway was a fantastic novel which mainly focused on his anti-war point of view. The story does take place mostly when the main character is serving in the war, but there are subtle hints within the text telling us that the war is just a ridiculous rotten game that we play. Inside the rotten game of war, lie even more rotten games such as relationships. In the passage on page 31 of A Farewell to Arms, Catherine and Henry talked about a "rotten game". Henry does not know what the rotten game is, and the actual rotten game is not revealed to the readers, however, Catherine tells him he plays it well. Catherine also does not want Henry to lie to her anymore, unless he has to.
The "rotten game" that Catherine and Henry talked about could either be the crazy relationship they were in, or the war. Either way, Henry does not know how to play the game very well. If Catherine was talking about their relationship, Henry has never truly been in a relationship,......
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