A Farewell Of Arms By Ernest Hemingway - 1067 Words

A Farewell to Arms By: Ernest Hemingway This book was claimed to be the best American novel to emerge from World War 1. This book is about an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. The drivers name is Lieutenant Henry and the English Nurses name is Catherine Barkley. The story starts out with the main protagonist Lieutenant Henry arranging to tour Italy. The following spring, upon his return to the front, Henry meets Catherine Barkley, an English nurse’s aide at the nearby British hospital. Catherine and Henry meet each other and then it becomes into a relationship. Catherine, who grieves over the death of her Husband; longs for love so deeply that she will settle for the†¦show more content†¦Henry was sent to the front with other ambulance drivers to evacuate troops as the Germans begin to break through the lines. They pick up two engineering sergeant and two frightened young girls. When one of their vehicles bog s down in the mud, Henry orders the two engineers to help in the effort to free the vehicle. When they refuse, he shoots one of them, â€Å"I look down to what I have done, he was still breathing, Bonello with his ruthlessness shot him in the back of the head.†(Hemingway 81) The drivers continue in the other trucks until they get stuck again. They send off the young girls and continue on foot toward Udine. Some conflict breaks out and Henry jumps into a river and boards a train to Milan where Catherine resided in. With a pregnant Catherine and Henry who deserted they make way for Switzerland on a borrowed boat. They resided in a town called Alpine and one morning Catherine fell into great pain for the baby was coming, â€Å"I’m awfully tired and I hurt like hell.†(Hemingway 326) They were staying in a hotel at that time and Henry was at the hospital all day waiting for the results of the baby and Catherine. As resulted the baby was born into a still born because the umbilical cord choked him around his neck. Catherine almost died of the delivery but she could not survive in the end because of a hemorrhage. Henry stayed with her at the last moments of her life, â€Å"She was unconscious