A_Farewell_To_Arms

A Farewell To Arms Throughout the entire novel A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, there is a constant reference to the title. Frederic Henry, the main character, loses things that are significant in his life. First, in the chaos of retreat Frederic is face-to-face with a very important decision. During the flee, many platoons of Italian soldiers became scattered. Frederic and the people he were traveling with got their vehicles stuck in the mud of a field, so they had to travel on foot. They lagged behind the rest of the army and began to see the invading soldiers on bicycles. Later, Italian officials found Frederic and took him to where they kept stray soldiers that they had found. Once there, Frederic realized he would probably be shot for abandoning the army. Since he didn’t want to be shot, he decided to flee. Once he fled, he would never be able to return to the army without being an outlaw. In short, ‘a farewell to arms’ means ‘goodbye to arms’, arms being weapons and the military life. After fleeing the army, Frederic escaped to Switzerland with Catherine, his fiancée. She was carrying his child. frederic, life, farewell, baby, army, arms’, very, soldiers, seemed, never, means, catherine, arms, shot, outlaw, one, once, nothing, military, love, left, later, labor, italian, hemingway, having, good, found, flee, find, end, dose, couldn’t, character