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Miscellaneous
100
American who volunteers for the Italian Army
Frederic Henry
100
country where Henry and Cat escape to
Switzerland
100
to portray impending tragedy or misfortune the novel uses the symbolism of
rain
100
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
priest - definition of love
100
author's first and last name
Ernest Hemingway
200
nurse whose original view of war was picturesque
Catherine Barkley
200
city where Henry recovers from his wounds
Milan
200
how Henry feels about his war experience (at the end)
disillusioned, discouraged, disappointed
200
"I want what you want. There isn't any me any more. Just what you want."
Catherine
200
point of view
mostly 1st person
300
a victim of jokes and ridicule in the officer’s mess
the priest
300
time period of the novel
WW I
300
Henry feels this surrounds him, it's like a "tent or behind a falls,"images of shelter and protection
Catherine's hair
300
How many had I killed? I had not killed any but was anxious to please ─ and I said I had killed plenty
Henry
300
Frederic's decision to leave the war
captured, almost executed
400
surgeon who never learns to love
Rinaldi
400
this sends Frederic to the hospital in the first place
mortar shrapnel
400
the brutality and the violent chaos that is described
war is senseless
400
“It is in defeat that we become Christian.”
Frederic
400
Farewell to Arms - one of two possible meanings...
end of fighting, the war OR the loss of Catherine
500
warns Henry of his arrest by Italian police
Emilio, the bartender
500
sends Frederic to the hospital in the first place
Montreux
500
"But after I had got them out and shut the door and turned off the lights it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." Name a theme.
love and loss - relationship depends on loss reality vs. fantasy - harsh truth
500
"The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it." Who are the questioners?
the battle police
500
Hemingway called this his Romeo and Juliet for one of these two reasons...
five books - five acts, story of star-crossed lovers