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Reading?Review of a Farewell To Arms. After reading this masterpiece of?Ernest Hemingway,?I sighed deeply for the pains and suffering the war brings to a person. By telling the experiences and thoughts of the?protagonist,?Frederick Henry, during World War I,?Hemingway expressed his criticism of?the war and showed empathy to all the victims.?Below?is?the outline of the story. An American soldier Frederick Henry was send to northern Italy with his comrades(战友) during World War I. There he made the acquaintance（相遇，熟人） of a British nurse Catherine Barkley. Afterwards Henry got wounded in the war and was sent to Milan for medical aid. Coincidently he met Catherine in Milan again. Gradually they both fell in love with each other and spent a wonderful but brief period of time .During this period, Catherine got pregnant. Then Henry returned from the rear area to the front, finding that the Italian Army there was full of failure and despair as defeated by the Germans. Italian Army began to retreat and soldier were very excited—not to sacrifice their lives for the motherland but to be against to the war. In front, the Italian Army military police began arresting soldiers and officers who wanted to escape or give up and executed them by shooting. To escape the fate of being executed Henry jumped into the river and fled away. He finally realized that he had finished his obligation as a soldier, and what he indeed needed was a peaceful life. At that time he has only one purpose, which is to find Catherine. Henry removed to Milan, but only to be?told that?Catherine had?moved to another city for holiday. Henry immediately set off, and months later the two meet again happily. They fled to Switzerland and had a?happy?time But eventually , Catherine died of dystocia(难产), leaving Henry a person alone in sorrow and loneliness. In Hemingways view, the war is an absurd behavior. Causes of war was factually not so pure as what the leader publicized（宣传）, instead usually only for politica