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A 7 page research paper that offers an in-depth character analysis of Frederick Henry, Ernest Hemingway's protagonist in his novel A Farewell to Arms. Drawing on scholarly opinion, the writer argues that the novel largely consists of describing Henry's change from someone incapable of love to someone who can love, which means that he commits himself to an investment in life that makes a return to his previous nihilism impossible. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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apathetic, devious, disillusioned ...guilty, nihilistic, (and) inwardly hostile towards women," as well as "fundamentally quite passive" (Bloom 5). While this description summarizes Henry quite well at the beginning of the
novel, examination of his character throughout the novel shows the Henry changes a great deal. He goes from someone incapable of love to someone who can love, which means that
he commits himself to an investment in life that makes a return to his previous nihilism impossible. At the beginning of the narrative, Henrys character can be summarized as
"rootless" (Rovit 34). Somewhere in the US, he has a stepfather, but he has quarreled with his family to the extent that communication between them is nominal (Rovit 34). Henry
is "in the War, but his attitude toward it is purely that of as a spectator, refusing to be involved" (Johnson 112). All of his relations, with fellow officers, with
anyone in fact, are deliberately kept by him on a superficial level (Johnson 112). Essentially, Henry has rejected the world, which Hemingway presents as the natural reaction of someone who
is a "sensitive and reflective person" Johnson 112). Henry is shown to be a cultured man, He was studying architecture in Italy at the wars onset and he is
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Saint Paul, Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt" (Johnson 113). However, while Henry
has studied art and architecture, critic Earl Rovit asserts that this does not indicate that he is particularly involved with this subject or that it represents anything more than a
"casual easily dissolvable interest" (Rovit 34). While it is true that Henry volunteered for the Italian Ambulance Corps, the reasons for this action are never made clear, as he
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