Study Guide: A Farewell to Arms (A BookCaps Study Guide)

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The perfect companion to Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BookCaps
• Release date: Dec 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465865809

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Ernest Hemingway’s

A Farewell to Arms

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Table of Contents

Historical Context

Plot

Characters

Themes

Chapter Summaries

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

About BookCaps

Historical Context

Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois in 1899 to conventional, middle-class parents. As he got older, he resented his parents for their conventional ways and morals and began to incorporate their beliefs into his stories. He briefly worked as a newspaper write, but when he was twenty years old he joined the Italian Red Cross and served as an Italian ambulance driver in World War I. Two of the experiences that Hemingway had while in the war were the inspiration for A Farewell to Arms, which is one of his most well-known and successful novels.

The first experience was when Hemingway was struck by a mortar round which nearly killed him and he was sent to a hospital in Milan. In the hospital, Hemingway had his second inspirational experience: he fell in love with a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. It has been widely believed that Hemingway’s relationship with Agnes inspired the relationship between Catherine and Lieutenant Henry in A Farewell to Arms. While recovering Hemingway settled into his writing and married the first of four wives. He began to publish the books that would make him a household name in the 1920’s.

A Farewell to Arms has been praised by critics for the powerful writing style and the vivid and realistic descriptions of life during and after the war. Despite the fact that Hemingway has been seen as a tremendously skilled writer, the quality greatly deteriorated post-World War II, along with Hemingway’s mental and physical health. He earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for The Old Man and the Sea and a Nobel Prize in 1955 before taking his own life six years later, in 1961.

Plot

A Lieutenant in the Italian Army, Frederic Henry, is American driving an ambulance in Italy during World War I. He soon meets a young woman named Catherine who was dating a friend of his but soon Henry and Catherine begin a romance with one another. Henry is injured while in