Symbolism in "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

[student`s name] [professor`s name] [Course] [Date of submission] Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway`s A Farewell to Arms First published in 1929, A Farewell to Arms is one of the most celebrated novels of Ernest Hemingway. It is also considered as a semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hemingway`s experience in the Italian campaigns during World War I. A Farewell to Arms offers powerful descriptions of life during and after wars, how people tried to live a normally despite the terror and deaths they had to endure. Stoic and masculine, Frederic Henry discovered strong passions and emotions for Catherine Barkley. But as the war raged on, Henry had to be prepared to lose a loved one, as well as be ready to bring with him the memory of beauty and love. The use of nature and contrasts To find a deeper meaning to the work A Farewell of Arms, one has to understand the symbolic structure utilized by the author. "Hemingway`s structure for the novel is developed a series of contrasting situations indicating a continuous dichotomy [labeled as] home and not-home … [which] can further [be] extended and viewed as a sense of normalcy (home) versus the absurd (not home)" ADDIN Mendeley Citation{86d09b59-d91b-4d9c-a369-27d84796ab6a} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "family" : "Macdonald", "given" : "Michael John" } ], "container-title" : "Explicator", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2008" ] ] }, "page" : "45-48", "title" : "Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\"", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "67" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=86d09b59-d91b-4d9c-a369-27d84796ab6a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "manualFormatting" : "(Macdonald 46)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Macdonald)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" } (Macdonald 46). For this particular novel, Hemingway utilized various elements of nature to show such contrasts and hanges in the character`s emotions and disposition are mirrored by their surrounding. Summer was abundant but dry, it brought no adventure for Henry while autumn, bare and wet, brought him tears and pain. Bloom says that Hemingway`s use of nature as symbolism is no surprise as he is one author well-known for his "love of open water and other wild places in nature" ADDIN Mendeley Citation{8defa532-5445-4db4-a46c-02c836f3468b} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "family" : "Bloom", "given" : "Harold" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2010" ] ] }, "publisher" : "Infobase Publishing", "publisher-place" : "New York", "title" : "Bloom's Guides: A Farewell to Arms", "type" : "book" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=8defa532-5445-4db4-a46c-02c836f3468b" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "manualFormatting" : "(Bloom 31)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Bloom)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" } (Bloom 31). The use of contrasting words like dry leaves and swiftly moving water, all try to capture the essence of paintings. The endless dust and falling leaves all serve as a rem...