... is delivered by a Caesarean operation. The baby is born stillborn and a few hours later, Catherine Barkley dies of multiple hemorrhages. The story of Ernest Hemingway's life is thought to have been the basis and inspiration for A Farewell to Arms. In 1918, when Hemingway was eighteen, he served in World War I in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps. A month after he arrived he was injured and spent nine months ... book, love and war. War in this case also symbolizes pain. Ernest Hemingway expresses the relationship between love and pain in A Farewell to Arms by using irony, characterization an...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School