A_Farewell_to_Arms-_Historical_Romance

A Farewell to Arms- Historical Romance The novel "A Farewell to Arms" should be classified as a historical romance. Many people in reading this book could interpret this to be a war novel, when in fact it was one of the great romance novels written in its time. When reading this book you notice how every important event of the war is overshadowed by the strong love story behind it. The love story is circled around two people, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Frederic is a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I. He meets Catherine, a beautiful English nurse, near the front of Italy and Austria. At first Frederic’s relationship with Catherine consists of a game based on his attempts to seduce her. He does make one attempt to kiss her, and is quickly slapped by an offended Catherine. Later in the story, Frederic is wounded and sent to the American hospital where Catherine works. Here he finds a part of him he has never had before, the ability to love. This is where his feelings for Catherine become extremely frederic, catherine, love, war, story, italian, rain, baby, evident, book, after, time, things, suddenly, seemed, romance, relationship, really, reading, people, one, novel, lot, hospital, hemingway, front, frederic’s, during, become, attempts, around, army, american, young, written, wounded, world, works, without, way, walks, very, vehicle, using, unsuccessful, under, unclear, uncertain, two, truly