Deep Thoughts (practice blog)

This book has been hard for me to get into. I think it’s especially hard because I can’t really relate to the situation the characters are put into. Anyways, I really find the character Catherine Barkley to be interesting. The fact that she is so invested into Frederic Henry so fast kind of confused me. She hits him and then she apologizes to him asking him if he will keep her safe and not hurt her. Their relationship is confusing to me a bit but so is the story itself. I find it hard to follow. One thing that is bothering me is how much the characters are always drunk. I understand in that time period alcohol was very abused especially in the war, but it is so excessive. I feel like it adds good background action, and gives you a visual of how the conversation is going. I also feel like if it were less drinking there would probably be different personality traits going on in the book. I hope I get more into this book as the next few chapters come around, but at the moment I have to re read a lot of the same pages over and over again.