A Farewell To Arms

          Ernest Hemingway gained his fame with the novels written during the Progressive   Era and the roaring twenties. A Farewell To Arms is a great novel of an American medic who falls in love with a nurse in France while he is serving in WW1. Ernest Hemingway Depicts the themes and ideas of the time through his novel like identity, individualism, realism, patriotism, romanticism and war. Hemingway is a great American novelist who captures the essence of the story and leaves unnecessary elements behind and only gives us what we truly need. The main theme of the book is ones understanding of him or herself, and the relationship between love and pain. Hemingway incorporates real facts on the war to make his story feel real since he did fight in WW1. Ernest Hemingway's characters are very self standing individuals. The main character in this novel is Frederic Henry who is a confused ambulance driver involved in the war, he at first is living a life of just plain lust and sexual feeling he is not really involved in the war mentally or emotionally. Henry falls in love with a French nurse and through out the novel he is concerned with her well being and his focused is on returning to see her.

Hemingway was a great novelist that knew what he was writing about a had his expresses guide him thought his ideas. He places his tone theme and diction in his own unique style that is seen as a masterpiece and he also put identity, individualism, romanticism, realism and war into one great novel that really was influenced by the time we was at. He placed that need for a better life just as the struggle for a better life in the progressive era.

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A Farewell To Arms