The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic
about the love story of a nurse and a war ridden soldier. The story
starts as Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army. He meets his
future love in the hospital that he gets put in for various reasons. I
thought that A Farewell to Arms was a good book because of the
symbolism, the exciting plot, and the constant moving of the main
character.
The symbolism in A Farewell to Arms is very much apparent. Ernest
Hemingway has always been one who is big on the symbolism of night as
being bad. To the main character in Hemingway's novels, nights have
always been a sign of death, or something negative to happen. Another
one of the symbolisms in A Farewell to Arms is when Henry tries to
escape from the Italian army by jumping off one of the ships the army
was traveling on and running away from the army. This symbolism was
the water that he jumped into was a symbolism of the new, clean life......
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