Hemingway repeatedly emphasizes the horrific devastation war has wrought on everyone involved. He begins with the opening account of cholera, which “in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army” (Hemingway 4). The use of the word “only” paints a picture of genuine horror. He makes it sound as if seven thousand isn’t a lot, but it is. Hemingway, however, does not merely condemn war. Rather, he indicts the world at large for its atmosphere of destruction. “A Farewell to Arms was dominated by an atmosphere of Gothic ruin, boredom, sterility, and decay” (Aldridge 231). Henry frequently reflects upon the world’s insistence on breaking and killing everyone; it is as if the world cannot bear to let anyone remain happy and safe because “nothing is allowed to seem lasting” (Wyatt 291). Indeed, whenever Henry and Catherine are bli

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