Category Archives: A Farewell to Arms

After tasted Hemingway’s “style”, I gained something. First of all, the emotion matters. Different weather will bring different feelings to the readers: sunny makes people happy, cloudy indicates a mixture of hesitation and worry, snowy means sadness especially the hearts are frozen, rainy always produce a sadness such as crying (dropping tears), and storm bringsContinue reading “Short Blog #1”

Throughout the novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Catherine throws herself at Frederic Henry—almost to the point where she loses her own identity. One of the quotes that really struck me was when she said to Henry “There isn’t any me. I’m you. Don’t make up a separate me” (99). I think thisContinue reading “Catherine Barkley Quote”

A quote that struck me from this book is “But people do…we’re gone and then they have us.” because it shows how Henry is determined to make sure those things will never happen to Miss Barkley or the baby on the way. Why it’s important in the novel is because it signifies Henry’s determination toContinue reading “Blog Post #2 (AFTA)”

So far in the book, we are thrusted into the setting of WW1 in Italy and met Frederick Henry and Miss Barkley. We don’t see a lot of jumping back and forth between settings but more focused on the characters and their thoughts/feelings. For the past few chapters, we see a slowly building relationship betweenContinue reading “Blog Post #1 (AFTA)”