... 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. ... a safe distance he boards a train headed for Milan. As he hides under a tarp h...

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