Ideas for Reports and Papers
How important is the element of fantasy in Singer’s stories? Does it detract from or enhance the realism they also contain? Compare the mainly autobiographical […]
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Related Titles and Adaptations
Most of the stories in A Day of Pleasure are taken from the autobiographical memoir In My Father’s Court (1966), to which Singer has added […]
Introduction
Ernest Hemingway’s 1929 novel, A Farewell to Arms, is often regarded as his best artistic achievement. It was certainly his greatest commercial success to date […]
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 to Dr. Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. They lived in Oak Park, Illinois, and Ernest actively pursued sports […]
Plot Summary
A Book One A Farewell to Arms opens in Italy during the First World War. The novel’s main character, Frederic Henry, is a young American […]
Characters
A Bartolomeo Aymo Aymo is one of Frederic Henry’s ambulance drivers during the Italian army’s retreat. He is also the driver Frederic is closest to. […]
Themes
A Identity In A Farewell to Arms, one of the themes of Frederic Henry’s adventure as an ambulance driver during World War I is identity. […]
Construction
A In Medias Res A Farewell to Arms opens in medias res-literally, in the middle of the thing. For the novel, this “thing,” constantly referred […]
Historical Perspective
A World War I World War I was also known as the Great War because it was war on a scale previously unimagined in modern […]