At the infirmary, they continue bonding together in love to the point that Henry shows interest in marrying her but Catherine disappoints him in her refusal words when she asks, “How could we be anymore married?” Henry recovers and heads back to war where the Italians get defeated by the collaboration of Austrians and German troops. Henry finds himself in hospital after his legs are severely hurt. However, her love to Henry seems unreal and totally based on emotions, after the recent death of her lover. Henry cannot stand to assume Catherine’s natural beauty and he perfectly responds to it, Catherine equally responds back positively. He sets to go to northern mountains where Italy is warring Austria. The book is about a young man named, Fredrick Henry, who studies in Italy during World War I, he features in the novel as an ambulance driver. All these happenings occurred in the era of World War I. According to Bloom, “The inspiration to writing this story started when he a Trench Mortar Shell struck him and hurt him terribly that he had to be transferred to one infirmary in Milan” (32). He later became an ambulance driver of Italian Red Cross. He was born in the 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois during summer. Ernest Hemingway, the true author of “A Farewell to Arms” narrating his true story based on the real pains and experiences he went through early 1918.
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