"Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway: Who is the more admirable character - Frederic Henry or Catherine Barkley?
Title: "Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway: Who is the more admirable character - Frederic Henry or Catherine Barkley?
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 861 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway: Who is the more admirable character - Frederic Henry or Catherine Barkley?
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 861 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway is a novel of love and war during the First World War, narrated by the main character, Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver for the Italian army. Between Frederic and his love companion Catherine Barkley, the reader observes the personality traits of both their good and their bad. While Catherine is viewed in a more positive light by not only Hemingway on a few occasions, but also the author
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compassion, and affection for Catherine, how he was conflicted the Lord for taking Catherine away and how he yearned to be with her, yet it was left out. The passages would have shown that Frederic's character is that much more admirable for his devotion to Catherine but they are inexcusably omitted because of Hemingway's desire to not create too much of a sense of understanding for the feelings and emotional experiences of the narrator Frederic.