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A Farewell to Arms 杨静静 英本3班content Major works Writing style Background The novel The theme The symbols The conclusion Major works Writing style Direct, terse, and often monotonous枯燥乏味的 Simple, nature Few conventional emotive language, few authorial comments symbolism Background After Hemingway went through the First World War, he got advanced in his attitude toward life, love and war. In A Farewell to Arms, the main character Henry is the  embody of himself.    During the process of taking part in the war, he fell in  love with a nurse for the first time in his life, but the  result was that the nurse dumped his courting, what the sad love set up was the male chauvinism男性至上主义 in his view of  love.  Facing the destruction resulted from the cruel war, he  deeply realized that the war was the slaughterhouse  which killed all the human being, and the war destroyed all the ideal and traditional values of the people, which  implied he had fed up the war in his inner heart.  The novel It tells the story of  Henry, a young American ambulance  driver serving in the Italian army during World War I. Henry falls in love with the British nurse Catherine. After he is wounded at the front, she tends to him in the hospital during his recuperation, and their relationship develops. His recuperation and romance with the now pregnant Catherine ends abruptly when Henry must return to the front. He escapes death at the hands of fanatical Italian soldiers, and finds Catherine. Then the couple flees to Switzerland, and in there their child is born dead. Catherine dies shortly after due to hemorrhages失血过多 . 美国青年弗瑞德里克·亨利在第一次世界大战后期志愿参加红十字会驾驶救护车，在意大利北部战线抢救伤员。在一次执行任务时，亨利被炮弹击中受伤，在米兰医院养伤期间得到了英国籍护士凯瑟琳的悉心护理，两人陷入了热恋。亨利伤愈后重返前线，随意大利部队撤退时目睹战争的种种残酷景象，毅然脱离部队，和凯瑟琳会合后逃往瑞士。结果凯瑟琳在难产中死去。 The novel The theme As the title suggests, A Farewell to Arms is in many ways an antiwar novel, but it would not be fair to connect this novel with a literature of pacifism or social