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The characters in A Farewell to Arms push bravery to the limits as they try to do the right thing in a world breaking apart before their eyes under the pressures of war. They are even brave enough to embrace what happiness they encounter. Each such embrace causes them to doubt their own bravery – happiness seems almost obscene when pain and suffering are all around you. The nature of courage and the nature of cowardice are interrogated in Ernest Hemingway’s sensitive and provocative tragedy.

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A Farewell to Arms shows men fulfilling what are often consider traditional male roles, or even stereotypes – they drink hard, fight hard, play hard, and commit heroic acts of bravery. However, as we get to know them better, their masculinity is revealed as subtle, complicated, and individual to each man. All in all, the men in this novel are human – they love, they suffer, they hurt, they hope, and, sometimes, they even break.

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Set mostly in Italy during World War I, A Farewell to Arms bemoans the horrors of war while giving a human face to those involved in it. The characters work ceaselessly to hold on to their hopes for happiness while doing right by their brothers and sisters in arms. Ernest Hemingway’s description of the war is precise and historically accurate. But his characters are intensely human and contain a variety of views and counterviews. Their colorful dialogues provoke us to join their debates, and in doing so further define our own views about war.

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Love is dangerous in A Farewell to Arms. In the middle of a war zone, anyone can die at any moment, breaking the hearts of the loved ones left behind. Yet the characters in the novel risk it all, to be both good romantic lovers and good lovers of human kind. Like all humans, they make mistakes, and sometimes aren’t the lovers they want to be. But as long as they have breath in their bodies, they keep on trying. They keep on trying to love, even with tragedy exploding all around them.

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In the final book, Frederic and Catherine live a quiet life in the mountains until she goes into labor. After a long and painful birth, their son is stillborn. Catherine begins to hemorrhage and soon dies, leaving Frederic to return to their hotel in the rain.

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Catherine and Frederic reunite and spend some time in Stresa before Frederic learns he will soon be arrested. He and Catherine then flee to Switzerland in a rowboat. After interrogation by Swiss authorities, they are allowed to stay in Switzerland.

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Frederic returns to his unit. Not long afterwards the Austrians break through the Italian lines in the Battle of Caporetto, and the Italians retreat. Due to a slow and hectic retreat, Frederic and his men go off trail and quickly get lost, and a frustrated Frederic kills a sergeant for insubordination. After catching up to the main retreat, Frederic is taken to a place by the "battle police," where officers are being interrogated and executed for the "treachery" that supposedly led to the Italian defeat. However, after seeing and hearing that everyone interrogated has been killed, Frederic escapes by jumping into a river. He heads to Milan to find Catherine only to discover that she has been sent to Stresa.

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Frederic and Catherine fall in love as Frederic slowly heals. After his knee heals, he is diagnosed with jaundice but is soon kicked out of the hospital and sent back to the front after being discovered with alcohol. By the time he is sent back, Catherine is three months pregnant.

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In the first book, Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving in the Italian Army is introduced to Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, by his good friend and roommate, Rinaldi, a surgeon. Frederic attempts to seduce her, and their relationship begins. On the Italian Front, Frederic is wounded in the knee by a mortar and sent to a hospital in Milan , where Catherine is also sent.

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He is sensitive to the pain the world inflicts and he does the best he can under strass in contrast with the "code hero" that is extremely courageous and that is able to live beyond the reach of ordinary human beings

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The key experience of his childhood was the encounter with nature. In fact he had the passions for fishing and hunting, seen as struggle against nature in which man fights with courage. In this struggle life represented a series of actions which gives man the measure of his control over events and beyond these actions there is death.

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During the Spanish Civil War he was a correspondent for an American news agency and this experience was recorded in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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When he shift to Key West, he went to an African hunting safari, that would lead to many stories, such as The Snows of Kilimangiaro and The Green Hills of Africa.

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In 1929 he wrote A Farewell to Arms, a love story that talks about the horrors of the war and at the same time the best American novel ever written on World War I

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He wrote The Sun Also Rises which showed his love of exotic settings and situationa where violent actions  reveal courage and endurance.

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In 1924 wrote his first novel In Our Time recalling the experiences of his childhood.

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Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois in 1899. He worked as a reporter for the "Kansas City Star". When America decided to enter the Great War, he tried to join the army, but he was rejected because of defective eye. Finally he voluntereed as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and received a silver medal from the Italian government.  Back to the United States he got a job as a foreign correspondent and settled in Paris where he entered in a group of expatriate writers called "the lost generation".  During the Spanish Civil War he was a correspondent for an American news agency. In 1953 her novel Old Man and The Sea won Pulitzer Prize in fiction. In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and then, because of her depression he committed suicide in 1961.