Short Blog Post Practice

“ ‘I’d rather wait,’ I said. ‘There are much worse wounded than me. I’m all right.’ ” (50)

In “A Farewell to Arms”, Ernest Hemingway illustrates Fredrick Henry as an emotionless man that does not focus on the deeper aspects of life. While talking with the priest, Henry states that he has never loved anyone and that he most likely never will. He also spends his time getting drunk and visiting whorehouses. Although Henry is painted like this, this quote demonstrates that there is more to Henry than he is on the surface. In one of the hardest moment of Henry’s life, he becomes selfless and puts others before himself. This is important to the novel because it brings more of an insight to who Henry really is. This quote also shows an insight on the author Ernest Hemingway. As we learned before we started the novel, Hemingway was similarly seen as the “man’s man”. There are also many parallels between Hemingway and Henry’s life. Hemingway utilizes Henry’s character to give the readers deeper understanding of himself. Through Henry, we can see that people can have deeper layers to them besides what is on the surface and that therefore, Hemingway himself can have more to him than his reputation tells.