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A Farewell to Arms Study Guide

by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms study guide contains a biography of Ernest Hemingway, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army during World War I, takes a winter leave from the front. When he returns, he meets and quickly falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse's aide in the town's British hospital. She mourns the death of her fiancé from the war last year, and she eagerly enters the pleasurable diversion the game of love offers with Henry. Henry, too, is revived by love after the horror he has seen of war.

Henry's knee is badly wounded during an artillery bombardment, and he is sent to a hospital in Milan for an operation. Catherine transfers to his hospital and helps him recuperate from the surgery. They spend all their free time together, and their love deepens as…

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• Summary and Analysis of Book One, Chapters VII-XII
• Summary and Analysis of Book Two, Chapters XIII-XVIII
• Summary and Analysis of Book Two, Chapters XIX-XIV
• Summary and Analysis of Book Three, Chapters XXV-XXXII
• Summary and Analysis of Book Four, Chapters XXXIII-XLI
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