A Farewell To Arms Research Paper

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While serving in the military, near the end of World War I, Hemingway worked as an ambulance driver for the Italian Army. During the war, Hemingway served in France and Italy where he sustained injuries from shrapnel and was sent to the hospital in Milan. Hemingway was awarded a medal of valor, the Croce de Guerra, by the Italians for acts of for his bravery for his service. After recuperating from his injuries Hemingway returned to America to reside in Michigan. In 1941, when World War II started, Hemingway self-appointed himself as an anti-submarine scout. Hemingway used his own fishing boat called “Pilar” to search for Nazi U-boats trying to enter the coastal waters around Florida and Cuba. In 1944, Hemingway then accompanied the Royal Air Force from London on bombing missions. After the Allied invasion of Normandy that same year he attached himself to the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division in the campaign to liberate France. Working as an …show more content…

Hemingway asked her to marry him and even though she accepted, she ended up leaving him for another man. This was a devastating blow for Hemingway. However, through this tragedy he produced “A Farewell to Arms” and “A Very Short Story”. Not long after, Hemingway moved back to the U.S. and met Hadley Richardson. Hadley became Hemingway's first wife. After the couple married they moved to Paris. In Paris, Hemingway became acquainted with some other famous writers, such as Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. Hemingway began attending the famous festival of San Fermin in Spain. Trips to these festival gave rise to one of his first and greatest novels, “The Sun Also Rises”. This works provides Hemingway’s aspect how the generation was disillusioned after the war. Even though Hemingway was considered an international artist, he never relinquished his American

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