... value," There are hidden deeper meanings"(Sanderson 1) Very often, one of the characters in Hemingway's stories represented Himself, and his own life. Hemingway often made relevant his own beliefs and relayed life experience in his fictional stories. A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929, and it is arguably one of the best WWI books, revolving around the passionate but doomed affair between an American ambulance officer and ... a British nurse in wartime Italy. This is very clear that Hemingway was writing about his own life here ... ...

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... and instead of going to college the following fall like his parents expected, he took a job as a reporter for the Kansas City Star (Hemingway preface). Hemingway signed up as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross during WWI (Wilson 2). He was accepted in December of 1917, left his job at the paper in April of 1918, and sailed for Europe in May (2). When Hemingway returned ... home from Italy in January of 1919 he found Oak Park dull compared to the adventures of war (3). With a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway ... . Ernest Hemingway has always been one w...

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