Farewell_to_Arms

Farewell to Arms Edmund Wilson, in an internet article, “Ernest Hemingway: Bourdon Gauge of Morale,” suggests that A Farewell to Arms is a tragedy of love and war . His purpose is to link the two different sides of the novel together in order to give readers a better understanding. Wilson supports this suggestion by showing examples throughout the book. No book gives the exactness of a foreigner in a war like this book does. Hemingway wrote this book “...long enough after the events for them to present themselves...” The characters are not tormented by the “dissonance between personal satisfaction and the suffering one shares with others...”, but as soon as we see the intimate relationship between the lovers we see that it is an “...idealized realationship...” A Farewell to Arms is a Romeo and Juliet. Catherine and Henry fall in love after she gets pregnant with his child and the romance blossoms from there when they leave in the middle of the night for Switzerland because it is a neutral country and Henry will be safe from the Italian Army which was going to farwell, arms, book, war, wilson, hemingway, catherine, because, relationship, points, love, henry, article, really, readers, part, out, intimacy, idealized, during, child, between, arms, after, wrote, way, understanding, wilson, two, tragedy, tormented, together, throughout, thought, themselves, theme, tells, telling, switzerland, supposed, supports, suggests, suggestion, suffering, strangeness, story, soon, solid, sides, showing, show, shares