美国文学20-analysisofAfarewelltoarms

1、Friction AppreciationA Farewell to ArmsSummary: （全文）One of Hemingway's war and love stories, this novel takes place in Italy during World War I and is tied closely to the author's own experience as an American Ambulance Driver for the Italian Army. The story ope ns duri ng a lull （暂停）in the

2、action and the reader meets a group of men who work with the wounded during battle. In the course of waiting for action, the protagonist, Henry, meets and court（s 求爱） an English nurse stationed in Italy.The core of the tale is the evolution （进展 发 展） of the love of these two in the face of increasing

3、 military involvement, including an engagement in which Henry is wounded and after his return to the front, an Italian retreatfrom which he barely escapes with his life. Ultimately, he and Catherine, his English love, defect and enter Switzerland to await the birth of their child. Baby and mother bo

4、th die and Henry is left alone, his future left by the author unplotted.Thematic DiscussionThe novel concerns itself primarily with the development of Hemingway's philosophy of life, which will be explained here. Hemingway, and indeed many of his existential peers, believed that the universe is

5、unordered one. There is no God to watch over man, to dictate codes of morality, or to ensure justice. Instead, the universe is indifferent (sometimes even hostile) to man's plight. In the book, this indifference is best exemplified by the war-an ultimately futile struggle of man against man. The

6、re are nowinners in a war, and there is no reasoning behind the lives which are taken.“the code hero”:One of the important things that makes Hemingway popular is that in a time of general despair and pessimism he wrote stories with heroes that the reader could admire. There is a particular term,“the

7、 code hero ”.The code hero withstoic courage lives by a pattern which gives life meaning and value. Hemingway hero is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent, a man of action, and one of few words. He is an individualist, alone even when with other people, somewhat an outsider, keeping emotions under control, stoic and self-disciplined in a dreadful place where one cannot have happiness. Frederic Henry is such an example. Hemingway hero is one who is wounded but strong, more sensitive and wounded becau