There are no subplots, and the minor characters in A Farewell to Arms are minor indeed - for the simple fact that they are not needed. (For that matter, we read chapter after chapter before even learning his name.) Nor do we discover much about his lover Catherine Barkley's past, other than the fact that her fiancé was killed in battle, in France. We never learn exactly where its narrator and protagonist, the American ambulance driver Frederic Henry, came from, or why he enlisted in the Italian army to begin with. In fact, the novel contains very little exposition at all. Ernest Hemingway conveyed this story chronologically, in a strictly linear fashion, with no flashback scenes whatsoever. Rather, it is a simple story well told, the plot of which could be summarized as follows: boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. Weather Symbolism in A Farewell to ArmsĪ Farewell to Arms is not a complicated book.
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