Analysis Of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

Analysis Of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

In WWI nearly 37 million people died, Ernest Hemingway was not one of them. Hemingway was an ambulance driver in the Italian army until he was eventually injured by an artillery shell. Once Hemingway returned home he began writing a book based on his experiences of WWI. That book is A Farewell to Arms. In 1929 he published this book and it was met with mixed feelings and calls for it to be banned. I believe that A Farewell to Arms should not be banned because it brings to light many different viewpoints about the war as well as strong literary strategies beneficial to good writing.



A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is a book about love and war set in Italy during WWI. The book begins with Lieutenant Frederick Henry working as an ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Frederic is then left to walk back to the hotel heartbroken and utterly alone.



I believe that A Farewell to Arms should not be banned because it portrays the true colors of war and teaches how inglorious and unorganized it was contrary to the beliefs of the early 20th century. In the early 20th century many people thought that war was a glorious, romantic, and organized thing but as we know today this is not true at all. In an article written by Charles Oliver he states "The individual soldier is nearly always confused in battle and never sure of the outcome until he hears about it later." (Oliver, 1). From this quote we can conclude that battle is not organized like many people at the time believed. In fact, this quote shows that war is so unorganized that nobody knows what is going on. Later on, in the article Oliver states that "For the soldier in the field, there are no rules, except to do whatever he can to stay alive." (Oliver, 3). From this quote we can come to a few different conclusions, the first is that the front was not a place of romance or glory, in fact it was a place of horror where every soldier was on his own fighting for his life. The second is that war was not a glorious ritual of protecting the homeland like many believed at the time, but that it was a chaotic mess of killing to stay alive. Lastly on page 68 Rinaldi says "I tell you this war is a bad

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