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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
There’s nothing worse than an unresolved ending. How could Hemingway do this to me? How could he mislead me to an unsatisfying demise and leave me in the deep end full of pondering questions? Henry and Catherine had the perfect life; living in the “brown house in the pine trees on the side of the mountain” paints the beautiful scenery for their new lives together which shatters due to the loathsome ending. I was also incredibly displeased with Henry’s behavior at the end of the novel. He seemed to care little about his son’s death: “Maybe he choked all the time. Poor little kid. I wished the hell I’d been choked like that. No I didn’t” (327). I believed Henry had transformed into a more loving person due to his relationship with Catherine but now I realize Catherine is and will be the only person he cared about. Due to our lovely lesson on the string of consciousness, I saw many examples of this embedded into the text – a few paragraphs that I actually enjoyed. I liked being able to catch a glimpse of what was going on in Henry’s head while Catherine was in labor. His repetition of “she won’t die” on page 320 along with his questioning helped me relate to his immediate feelings of Catherine’s condition: realizing he lived to be with Catherine and love her more than anything. After finishing the novel, I overall enjoyed the descriptions of the scenes in the beginning of every chapter. This was very helpful since the chapters began to drag with conversation and unrelated ramblings that often got confusing to decipher.