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A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms, by Earnest Hemingway, is a great novel about the pains of life including the great sorrow that comes with loosing those you love. Frederic Henry, the protagonist of the story, is an American Lieutenant in the Italian Army during the First World War. This fact is significant in learning why this book was written because Earnest Hemingway, an American, actually drove ambulances for the Italian Army during the war. Therefore, one could safely say that this book is somewhat of a portrayal of Hemingway’s own experiences during the war. The gap between humanity’s noble words and its dishonorable deeds was never more obvious than during World War I. For this reason the war serves brilliantly as the setting for Hemingway’s novel of love and disillusionment. The story begins in the summer of 1915. This is about the time that Italy joined the war. The starting place is a city named Gorizia located in Northeastern Italy near the front with Austria-Hungary. This is where Frederic lives along with the rest of the officers. As the story develops, Frederic ends up in many different cities and towns, all along the Italian-Austrian front. The story ends in farwell, arms, henry, war, frederic, catherine, novel, love, book, one, italy, front, army, italian, world, life, he’s, time, story, rinaldi, place, lieutenant, leave, hemingway, great, good, during, death, comes, because, american, way, switzerland, out, never, long, knee, joined, goes, earnest, along, after, wasn’t, trying, theme, take, spring, setting, say, returns, retreat, reason