Edmund Wilson, in an internet article, “Ernest Hemingway: Bourdon Gauge of Morale,” suggests that A Farewell to Arms is a tragedy of love and war . His purpose is to link the two different sides of the novel together in order to give readers a better understanding.
Wilson supports this suggestion by showing examples throughout the book. No book gives the exactness of a foreigner in a war like this book does. Hemingway wrote this book “...long enough after the events for them to present themselves...” The characters are not tormented by the “d
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