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A Farewell to Arms, a novel that was written by Ernest Hemingway

Introduction

A farewell to arms, a novel that was written by Ernest Hemingway, is the narrative of a disheartened soldier who happens to get entangled in a romantic relationship with his nurse. The soldier is confronted by the brutality as well as the nonsensical cruelty of the war. The soldier faces bare truths concerning how conflict compromises fundamental human relationships. In the novel, Italy’s responsibility is to prevent the Austro-Hungarian army from supporting the Germans on the battle’s western frontage, and Russia towards the east. The protagonist of the novel, who doubles as its narrator, is in the long runrecognized as Lieutenant Henry. Henry is an American volunteerfor the Italian forces, since the U.S has not yet come into the war. Henry oversees a faction of ambulance drivers of Italian origin (Hemingway 3). This paper posits to provide an exploration of the plot as well as the basics of the narrative.

THE PLOT

In the initial part of the book, Henry takes goes to Naples and comes back. Through his acquaintance, Lt. Rinaldi, Henry meetsBarkley, who is an aide to a British nurse. Barkley’s fiancéehad died in Somme theyear before. Henry is immediately love-struck with Barkley and he spends a long time courting her. Henry’s initial meetings with Barkley come across as a playful game. The two characters are conscious of the surrounding gravity of events, but, all together, Henry and Barkley participate in a joint flight of the imagination. In tears, Barkley tells Henry that they would have a weird life (27). The offensive begins again as the snow clears, and Henry departs with three ambulances to a station in the mountains. In the first night at the station, a bombardment takes place and Henry is gravely injured in the legs. Henry loses one of the drivers, while another is wounded. Consequently, Henry is transferred to a field health-care facility, but he is later transferred to Milan when an American hospital opens there.

However, the hospital staff is caught unawares by Henry’s presence at the hospital, but they accept him nevertheless. Barkley comes to work at the American hospital with Miss Ferguson, who is her acquaintance in order that she may be close to Henry. The primary estimates give Henry six months to recuperate, but a second physician operates on him virtuallyinstantly. Before long, Henry walks on crutches and is seen visiting restaurants in the company of Barkley. Barkley makes sure that, she works in the night shifts, in order that, they may spend time together during the night. Henry begins to engage in too much drinking, and as soon as he recuperates, he is offered leave for threeweeks. He however, loses it since he acquires jaundice as a result of drinking excessively. Barkleyowns up to him that she is pregnant, but Henry is not disappointed with her, but only troubled. Seemingly more significant than the fear of battle are the discussions and drinking in the officers’ mess, mirroring the triviality of the encroaching battle (62).

Prior to his to return to the battle front, the two spend a night in aninn. Henry departs by train at midnight in order to go back to Gorizia.On reaching Gorizia, Henry finds out that there are a smaller number people in the town, and the town is increasingly unexciting. He also discovers that, his acquaintance Lt. Rinaldi has grown to beincreasingly miserable. Henry creates a fuss in the mess hall before leaving, as the two acquaintances chat over the war and life. The following day Henry arrives at the mountain station to search for the ambulance team. However, that night they are compelled to retreat following an Austrian assault. After a few days, the multitude of people who are retreating creates a traffic jam. Henry finds it appropriate to direct his three ambulances to take a path, but soon after taking the side road, the ambulances become stuck, and therefore, the team is forced to proceed on foot. Tragedy strikes as the come to a river, when one of Henry’s drivers is murdered, and another one is captured as he tries to escape. Henry and his remaining driver tryreuniting with the Italian army, but, to their dismay, the Italian army has become suspicious of German spies. The Italian army is interrogating as well as shooting anybody who is not of Italian origin. Henry leaps into a river in an effort to flee execution,and consequently floats for a period of time. He leaps on a train and travels to Milan (71).

When Henry arrives in Milan, he discovers that Barkley has left to a town known as Stresa in proximity to the Swiss boundary. Henry acquires some new clothes from anacquaintance and travels by train to search for Barkley in Stresa. On arrival in Stresa, he enters into aninn and finds Barkley in the company of her acquaintance Miss Ferguson. The reunion of Henry and Barkley brings joy two the couple, although Miss Ferguson is distressed on seeing Henrysince she doesnot trust him. In the course of their stay in Stresa, an acquaintance of H.............