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{{Infobox book
| title = A Farewell to Arms
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| author = Ernest Hemingway
| central theme = [[War Is Hell]]
| elevator pitch = A [[Romance]] set in [[World War I]].
| genre = [[Military and Warfare Literature|War novel]], [[Realism]]
| publication date = 1929
| source page exists =
| wiki URL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms
| wiki name = Wikipedia
}}
[[Ernest Hemingway]]'s second novel, written in [[Point of View|first-person]] narration, published in 1929, and [[Write What You Know|semi-autobiographical]].
Frederic Henry, a volunteer American ambulance driver, serves in Italy during [[World War I]]. Whilst abroad, he meets British nurse
Hemingway was [[True Art Is Angsty|not a happy man]].
Besides many characters being based on [[Write Who You Know|people the author knew]], this novel is useful to Hemingway scholars as it provides the first incarnations of the famed Hemingway "code hero"
The novel is considered one of the great classics of American fiction, and chances are that if you attended an American high school, you read it there. (This just highlights one of the downsides of Hemingway's "[[Beige Prose|iceberg theory]]" of fiction: it relies on [[Subtext]], which, depending on your age and/or maturity level, you might not get.)
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Frederic is a heavy drinker.
* [[Beige Prose]]: Hemingway's [[Signature Style]]
* [[Book Ends]]: The story being and ends with rain (the novel's [[Arc Symbol]]) and death.
* [[Crapsack World]]: The book has a very pessimistic viewpoint. In the end, after [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|Catherine's death]], Frederic narrates humanity's breaking point:
{{quote|The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.}}
* [[Death by Childbirth]]/[[Downer Ending]]: Catherine dies after her miscarriage.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Frederic grows his beard in Switzerland.
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: Catherine falls in love with Frederic while tending his wounds.
* [[Revised Ending]]: The 2012 [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition|Hemingway Library Edition]] of the novel features 47 different endings that the author rejected.
* [[Second Love]]: Catherine has a history with a dead fiance.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Frederic deserts the Italian army after being sentenced to death.
* [[The Stoic]]: Frederic Henry relates to the world in a largely physical manner, he has trouble not being a [[Jerkass]] sometimes, and his thoughts revolve around girls and drink.
* [[Too Happy to Live]]: Frederic and Catherine would have had a great future as a couple, if not for her early death.
* [[Train Escape]]: Frederic deserts the Italian army, saving himself from execution, by jumping down a running train.
* [[War Is Hell]]: There is nothing [[War Is Glorious|glorious]] about Hemingway's depiction of war. It alternates between long moments of inactivity and complete chaos.
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