6/29/2023 0 Comments A farewell to arms bookPerhaps Passini plants the idea of a separate peace in Henry's head when he states, "One side must stop fighting. "Everybody hates this war," Passini says. (The writer was an ardent supporter of the Republican, or anti-Fascist, side in the Spanish Civil War, subject of his later novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.) Since Henry is relatively inexperienced and therefore naïve at this point in the novel, it is Passini who puts these ideas into words: that nothing is worse than war, that war makes men go crazy, that those who fear their superiors are responsible for war. Thematically, Hemingway uses the discussion among the drivers in the dugout to articulate his beliefs on war, or at least his beliefs on World War I. While the drivers are eating, the Austrian bombardment wounds Henry and kills Passini, after which Henry is transported away from the fighting in great pain.ĭramatically, this chapter provides the novel's second major turning point, as Lieutenant Henry's war wound will remove him from action and thus enable his affair with Catherine Barkley to grow into love. The drivers argue over the purpose of the war, with the driver named Passini the most philosophically opposed. Lieutenant Henry and his fellow ambulance drivers establish themselves in a dugout across the river from the enemy troops. Weather Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms.
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