... . All of these events inspired Hemingway while developing the themes and writing the novel A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway uses real life experiences in many of his books (Sexton 16). Some of these other works include, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and The Old Man and the Sea. The ... Hemingway did on purpose, they are easily identified as the two most important themes in the novel. Despite the frequency of their appearance in the same books, love and war are an unlikely mixture of themes. In the novel their courses run exactly but subtly, parallel. This gives the reader a ...

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