[student`s name] [professor`s name] [Course] [Date of submission] Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway`s A Farewell to Arms First published in 1929, A Farewell to Arms is one of the most celebrated novels of Ernest Hemingway. It is also considered as a semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hemingway`s experience in the Italian campaigns during World War I. A Farewell to Arms offers powerful descriptions of life during and after wars, how people tried to live a normally despite the terror and deaths they had to endure. Stoic and masculine, Frederic Henry discovered strong passions and emotions for Catherine Barkley. But as the war raged on, Henry had to be prepared to lose a loved one, as well as be ready to bring with him the memory of beauty and love. The use of nature and contrasts To find a deeper meaning to the work A Farewell of Arms, one has to understand the symbolic structure utilized by the author. “Hemingway`s structure for the novel is developed a series of contrasting situations indicating a continuous dichotomy [labeled as] home and not-home … [which] can further [be] extended and viewed as a sense of normalcy (home) versus the absurd (not home)” ADDIN Mendeley Citation{86d09b59-d91b-4d9c-a369-27d84796ab6a} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "family" : "Macdonald", "given" : "Michael John" } ], "container-title" : "Explicator", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1", "issued"...