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“Well, I would eve see him now. I would never see any of them now. That life was over.”

This quote is said when Henry leaves the Italian Army, hopped on a train, and headed toward Milan. It is pivotal moment in the narrator’s journey. This was when he decided to leave his life in the front of the army in order to live with Catherine Barkley. Henry knows that he made a life altering decision and is aware that he has created a new life. Afterward, he became a criminal on the run because he abandoned the army.

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A Farewell to Arms Post 2

Hemmingway has a unique way of using dialogue and interpreting conversations. He often uses dialogue without using quotation marks. He cleverly portrays back and forth conversation as simple sentences all in a paragraph. This makes the conversations seem short, even though a lot has been said. It is a good way to hear a conversation as the narrator most likely experienced it. This technique can make the book challenging though because it is tough to tell who’s saying what.

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A Farewell to Arms Post 1

     In A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemmingway, the most interesting thing that I have read about so far is the overall nature of WWI. Through the narrator’s thoughts and actions, Hemmingway describes the war in an extremely vivid way. He has also expresses a number of different internal struggles the narrator is going through. It is interesting be in the mind of an emotionally wounded character in the midst of a chaotic global conflict.  

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