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As for my thoughts, this year I really re-discovered this author. Previously I never understood his narrative but after finding out about the theory of omission everything was easier to understand. Also, I think that Hemingway is an author that should be read a little bit later in life because I was not able to fully feel the tragedy of love in this novel when I was younger. I am not really interested in the theme of war, but Catherine’s character resonated with me a lot and I really sympathized with Frederic and was able to trace this character’s development. All in all, I really liked this story and everyone should read it or at least watch the film.

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1) First modernist feature is a special minimalistic style that forces the reader to look for a deeper meaning, feelings of the character, and moral of the story.
2) It is a pretty individualistic story. As usual, Ernest focuses only on a small number of characters and their development.
3) Description of the chaotic world of war is also an important feature of modernism.
4) Of course, if we talk about Hemingway, then there would be a great number of symbols and metaphors. Characters themselves are symbols, but there are also some smaller ones. For example, as Catherine's hair and Frederic's beard grow longer they represent the couple's isolation from the whole world, the "shelter" that both find in each other. And the death is represented by rain at the end of the novel.

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Lt.  Frederic Henry is an American soldier and the protagonist of the story. He represents Hemingway's experience at war where he came as an empty sheet of paper with no sense of life and no fear of death. After various obstacles, a boy with no understanding of what is war became more mature, formed a strong opinion on war and its implications, and also became fearful of death, as he has seen its ugly face.
Catherine Barkley is a character that was heavily inspired by Ernest's first love - a nurse from the red cross called Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky Stanfield. She is a tender, beautiful and confident woman. The only thing she really craved was real love, but due to an unfortunate event, she fell victim to a tragedy.
Rinaldi, the surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital. Even though his character is quite controversial and his vulgar behavior is far from being likable, I cannot deny that he is a great representation of masculinity that Ernest praised in all his works. He is a witty and very passionate man.
Helen Ferguson - Catherine's friend. She is a woman with high moral standards that are not affected by war. Moreover, Helen values friendship, honor, and purity so she ends up covering Henry and Catherine up in order to protect her best friend. I think that both these women represent idealized feminity in the eyes of Ernest, as it was also a major theme of his works.

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I think that it is important to mention that all in all "A Farewell to Arms" is a pretty autobiographical story and it covers the events of WW 1, in which Hemingway participated. Therefore the plot contains a lot of events from his personal life.
American young man Frederic Henry joins the Italian ambulance service. There he meets an English nurse Catherine Bakery. The woman still mourns as her fiancé was killed during the war. Henry gets a serious injury so he is brought to a hospital in Milan, where he meets Catherine again. During this time their grow deep affection towards each other and soon Catherine gets pregnant.
After in the hospital it is discovered that Henry is hiding alcohol, he is sent back to the front. There he finds out that the soldier’s moral state is at rock bottom. During the Italian retreat, he deserts the army but the man manages to escape. In Milan Henry searches for Catherine, but learns that she is at Stresa. After meeting each other both flee Italy into Switzerland.
There the couple passes some calm months but then tragedy strikes. Catherine goes into labor but her body is too weak and after an unsuccessful c-section the child is stillborn and Catherine dies because of hemorrhage. Frederic returns to their hotel alone, in the rain.

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman.

Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb in the west of Chicago, to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician. His parents were well-educated and well-respected in Oak Park. Ernest was the second out of 6 children.
Heminway participated in WW 1 and WW 2. Traveled to Spain, Cuba, and Africa, those journeys would have a great contribution to his novels.
Ernest won the Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style." Another major literary award was Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
His main contribution to the literature of the era is the Iceberg Theory.
Major works:

(1925) In Our Time

(1926) The Sun Also Rises

(1929) A Farewell to Arms

(1937) To Have and Have Not

(1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s and was part of the modernism movement.