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A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929 by Ernest Hemingway and shows the best and worst sides of its author. With his descriptive, evocative and subtle undertone
Hemingway manages to bring the reader with him into the very sentimental sense of tragedy, that both A Farewell to Arms and some of his other works possess.
Even the title expresses what empty hole war brings, upon soldiers and their loved ones. This is especially represented in chapter 23, as the couple farewells each other under the gloomy circumstances.
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The chapter is set in Milan and the constant reminder of the fog silently arising throughout the night brings out a dull and old-style, warlike feeling as the couple wander the night.
You can almost sense the tension between the two, as they go looking of any sort of distraction on their way.
The short and firm communication combined with the soundless dawn leaves the very emptiness that follows war and death, they are both aware that there’s a possibility of the narrator never returning
and the weight of that is simply too much for them to enjoy their last moments together, as the farewell is inevitable, and they are aware of that.
Even though both the story and the plot take place in former times, the great narration and shred of history give us an ability to sense the atmosphere and breathe the air of back then.
The slow mood, circumstances and public scenery like leather- and armour shops, the carriage and the appearance of their chauffeur with a varnished hat, gives our present-day readers sort of a monochromatic scenery.
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