Analysis Of A Farewell To ArmsBy Ernest Hemingway

Whoever said, War was hell, must have read Ernest Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms. It is a decade defining controversial piece of American Literature. It was not only controversial because Hemingway was a depressed drunkard, but it was controversial because it doesn t glorify war; it shows the brunt reality of the Great War. He provides the evidence of his depression through his writings by allowing his characters to be placed in horrid situations. He also shows his alcoholism this way, by allowing his characters to be alcoholics. For example, in A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry used alcohol to get over his pain, which would eventually lead to Henry s jaundice, a lack of liver function, which is a symptom of cirrhosis of the liver,†¦show more content†¦During the second book in the novel, Catherine and Frederic are talking about being married legally through the church. Catherine responds to Frederic stating how he would go on leave to be formally married by saying, You can t get to Scotland and back on a leave. Besides I won t leave you. What good would it do to marry now? We re really married. I couldn t be any more married, (Hemingway 99). This quote shows the sanctity of their relationship because it s just like a marriage. They are so close together, and since they re always together, they are like an old married couple. Rinaldi, a surgeon friend of Frederic, has been caught in the chaos of a front, and he has to do all the major cases in the hospital he works at. He shows how horrid the front is, and how hellish war is by saying, I never think. No, by God, I don t think; I operate, (Hemingway 147). This shows how Rinaldi is what s called a hamburger surgeon. These surgeons just patch up, and they take out what they need to take out. Many of them don t even think, nor do they have bedside manners, they just operate. Around two-thirds into the book, Frederic is captured by his allies, and he is about to be put on trial before a biased judge, who was also the executioner, and right before he was up for trial, Frederic prepared for his escape. The escape is laid out for the audience through this quote, I ducked down, pushed between two men, and ran for the river, my head down. I tripped at the