The CHARACTER ANALYSIS IN THE NOVEL “A FAREWELL TO ARMS” BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Abstract

A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway at the age of thirty, is widely regarded as the best American novel to come out of World War I. It tells the enduring tale of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love affair with a stunning English nurse. This compelling, semiautobiographical work depicts the horrific realities of war and the suffering of lovers caught in its unstoppable clutches, set against the backdrop of the impending horrors of the battlefield—tired, disheartened men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the intense conflict between loyalty and desertion.