Hemingway

A Farewell To Arms

Ernest Hemingway

•Graduated high school & enlisted as an ambulance driver.

• stationed in Italy during the last year of World War I.

•Hemingway was wounded & sent to the hospital.

•This is where he fell in love with an American nurse.

•Hemingway returned to America to find a job to support him & the nurse.

•she wrote from Europe to say that she'd fallen in love with another man.

•Hemingway married & had 3 sons. •However, the wife stole a suitcase containing papers that Hemingway had been working on for 4 years

•Ended up having 4 wives and 3 divorces.

•He survived 2 consecutive plane crashes, was an alcoholic, had declining health & was depressed.

•He committed suicide.

A Farewell To Arms

• It was published in 1929.•11 years after the armistice of November 11, 1918, that ended the war.

•A Farewell to Arms is probably the best novel written about World War I.

•Also one of Hemingway’s best novels.

•It has been compared to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

•The novel received widespread success as well as worldwide fame for Hemingway.

• There are no flashbacks in this story

A Farewell To Arms• Setting: Italy•Romantic because Henry & Catherine meet in a time & place in which at any moment they could lose one-another. •There are 2 movie versions 1932 & 1957

W.W.IWorld War I 1914-1918

War Begins in Europe

•Europe has been fighting for centuries

•1914—Austro-Hungry vs. Serbia•Archduke Francis Ferdinand & wife were shot.•Austrian-Hungary blamed Serbia & declared war.

•Central vs. Allied Powers•Central = Austria/Hungary, Germany, and Italy (at first).•Allies—Russia (included Serbia), England & France.

•America = Neutral•We will trade with either side.•British rule the seas.•Germany uses submarines to shoot ships.•Germans sink Lusitania & Americans die.

America Gets Involved1.) Submarine warfare2.) America’s tie to the British3.) Democracy

Statistics on the War•Lasted 3 years for America•15.5 million people died•$186 billion worth of damage•Invention of the machine gun•Trench warfare•Poisonous gas•Barbed wire, tanks, submarines & airplanes•Americans wanted to get involved