... to arms' when he has to let go of Catherine when she dies, the arms in this meaning signifying love. This shows two of the major themes in the book, love and war. War in this case also symbolizes pain. Ernest Hemingway expresses the relationship between love and pain in A Farewell to ... realism, professes a disbelief in signs, and tells himself that Catherine's vision of herself dead in the rain is meaningless. But she dies in it- (Young, New 40). In this quote, Young tells of the classic symbolism of rain as a sign of disaster. Frederic, in disbelief does not believe in the sign and .....

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