In the beginning Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I, meets a beautiful English nurse named Catherine Barkley near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. At first Henry wants to seduce her, but when he is wounded and sent to the American hosp...

The Battle of Good and Evil Throughout history, life has consisted of this: the epic battle -- the battle of good and evil, from which all other conflicts grow. This underlying factor has been placed within literature since the beginning of writing. From then to now, novels have been based on t...

There are three major themes in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The first themeis enduring love ended only by mortality. The second, the epeople can and do believe during war. The last and most important theme is Frederic Henry's disillusionment. Hemingway shows that love can persevere in a world ru...