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A 5 page essay that offers a case study on author Ernest Hemingway, focusing on A Farewell to Arms as being exemplary of Hemingway's work. The writer discusses the Hemingway style; the plot, mood, etc. of A Farewell to Arms; and also a short evaluation of the influence of Hemingway's fiction on the writers that came after him. No additional sources cited.
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his first novel, A Farewell to Arms, exemplifies the basic aspects of what came to be known as the Hemingway style, as well as the Hemingway hero. Hemingways prose
style has been described as "short, strong, sonorous sentences," which feature "finely drawn heroes," who were broken by the world, but "left strong" at those broken places (Parshall 67). The
following examination will show that this description applies well to Hemingways Farewell to Arms. Style of writing The Hemingway style might never have developed if Hemingway had attended
college and been exposed to courses in creative writing as envisioned at the typical university. As it was Hemingway had his writing apprenticeship at the Kansas City Star newspaper. The
style sheet at the Star read, "Use short sentences, Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English" Parshall 67). These were rules for composition that Hemingway never forgot. He also adopted
stylistic elements from Mark Twain and Stephen Crane, as well as Ezra Pround and Gertrude Stein. Nevertheless, the Hemingway style, with its short, clipped, simple declarative sentences is a completely
original Hemingway invention. Plot, mood, setting and theme A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lt. Frederick Henry, a handsome young American who is serving as a driver
in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I. Henry meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Soon after their romance begins, Henry is wounded
by an Austrian mortar shell, which turns his legs to virtual "hamburger." While he is recuperating, hes transferred to Milan, and fortunately Catherine is also transferred. As Henry works diligently
to regain the full use of his legs, the romance between Henry and Catherine blossoms, and just before he is suppose to return to the front, Catherine tells him that
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