Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

The Symbolic Use of Love, Death and Spirituality in A Farewell of Arms
Religion shows a compelling part in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. The demeanor that the characters responded in relation to the war and life were closely associated with their perspective on religion. By cause of the intense assets of warfare, moral standards were obscure for the characters. Essentially, all things associated with the war contravened the naturall code of morality, which led many to feel disillusioned. People who viewed the war as ludicrous, had no belief in religion or God. For the character of Frederick Henry it was clear that his reliance in God, was a subject of predicament. Henry was a character that understood religion, but did not love God. Henry’s lust for Catherine, was the

In Chapter nineteen, Catherine asserts "I'm afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it." (Hemingway 109) she clearly sees rain as a symbol of all of the outside forces of war, military bureaucracy and death hamper with the privacy of life and love. Henry doesn’t seem to comprehend this yet. He cuts off Catherine's mourning, but there's no stopping the rain. Even from the first chapter, rain is associated with the cholera which results in the death of 7,000 soldiers. In the finishing sentence of the novel, as it’s raining outside the hospital situated at the point of Catherine’s death, the reader is reminded that during wartime, misfortune can plunge as buoyantly and aimlessly as rain. As Henry makes significant nighttime transitions from one place to the other, for example the night that he leaves Milan to return to the front and the night that Henry and Catherine que across the lake from Italy to Switzerland, it is pouring rain. The rain itself shows that no matter how hard Henry tries to escape death, he can never outrun