... II times, will pretend to love someone, and fake their emotions to make themselves feel better. People want to feel that someone loves them and they want to love someone. Another time in this book, what the characters do relates to what people do now. Another showing of how people feel or act the same way now as they did back in WWI times is when Henry gets ... Catherine pregnant. Catherine and Henry aren't ready to have a baby, but they cannot do anything about it. The way that Henry responds to having the baby is a lot like how some fathers that aren't married to the mothers react now...

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"A Farewell To Arms," by Ernest Hemingway can be seen as the wartime version of "Romeo & Juliet"," as it's a story of unlikely love. The characters in the story experience highs and lows, and their lives are described with sensitivity and feeling. Exposition Frederic Henry is a young American ambulance driver during WWI, serving in the Italian Army. In the start of the story the war is winding down as Henry ... plans to tour around Italy. The next spring when he returns ... to the front, he meets a young woman. Her name is Catherine Barkley. She is an English nurse's aid ... ...

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... deaths. The novels written during the post war period showed these feelings. Hemingway's "farewell to arms" is clear evidence of these new beliefs. Hemmingway explains all the feeling that soldiers of his time felt during and after the war. In a Farewell to Arms Hemingway uses painful experiences of his own life and places them in the novel. The main character of the novel Henry is based on himself ... Society had been destroyed down by the war. The destruction and resentment that Survivors felt led them to be named the Lost Generation. Henry in chapter 26 says to the priest that he no ...

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