Setting in A Farewell to Arms by E. Hemingway
Title: Setting in A Farewell to Arms by E. Hemingway
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1508 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Setting in A Farewell to Arms by E. Hemingway
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1508 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hemingway begins his story of war with a seemingly peaceful portrait of an Italian village in the summer and autumn of 1916. His rich visual images evoke a natural world that appears at first glance to be changeless. The narrator is merely an observer of the shifting seasons and the apparently distant war. Hemingway says a lot by saying little, and his technique is easily seen in this opening chapter. Although he is writing of war,
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structure for the plot and the actions that occur. It also emerges as a source of symbols that replace human sentiment or feelings. Characters die and there is no mention of sadness or pain. Instead, Hemingway writes that it is raining, that it is autumn, or that peace has occurred when people are still at war. The replacement of emotions with symbols allows Hemingway to frequently understate what is really going on in the action.