Catherine and Henry both continue to talk about getting married, but never get around to doing it. They say that they want to get married, but they both know that it is such a big commitment, and they know that people who get married generally have to love each other. If they were really in love they would have gotten married. At then end of the book the only reason that they want to get married is to please the people around them. “We’ll be married, Fergy, Catherine said, if it will please you.” ( Hemingway 248) Here Catherine is saying flat out that she will marry Henry if that is what Fergy really wants them to do. They wouldn’t just get married because they love each other, the reason here that they would get married is to please someone else. They both know that they are going to have a child together and they believe that probably the right thing to do is to get married. They think that maybe they want to get married, but in reality, they are just trying to please the people around them. If Catherine and Henry did end up getting married it would probably be a big mistake, because the only love between them is fake. This is showing how a lot of people these days will get married, because they are having a child together or because they think that they are in love enough to get married, but if these people really sat down and thought about what they were doing, they probably wouldn’t get married in the end. Many people these days do this, and end up getting divorced because they do not enjoy living with each other and they do not want to be with each other forever. This relation to what happens now-- days and what happened back in World War I times is also shown other times throughout this book.

Another time that the book refers to things happening to people right now is when Henry and

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