Breaking Away from Stereotypical War Romance in A Farewell to Arms: Mutually Interdependent Hero and Heroine
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This paper examines how Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1927), mature in a relationship that enables them to not only break away from being passive victims of the war but also pursue their lives as active protagonists struggling with the biological trap of death. My reading focuses on the couple’s combined effort of mutual interdependence to understand and defiantly confront the threat of death without crumbling under its effect. The novel’s tragic ending is not seen as love story but rather as a narration of how the hero and heroine, through the progress of their mutually developing relationship, have become independent enough to face challenges without regressing back into their previous passive roles. This paper concludes with a new reading of Catherine’s death that touches upon but necessarily excels beyond questions of gender and social identity to include an analysis of her soldier-like acceptance that applies to the silent forgotten unknown men and women who died alone with the same courage and integrity that Catherine exemplifies for Frederic and Hemingway’s readership.
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This paper examines how Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1927), mature in a relationship that enables them to not only break away from being passive victims of the war but also pursue their lives as active protagonists struggling with the biological trap of death. My reading focuses on the couple’s combined effort of mutual interdependence to understand and defiantly confront the threat of death without crumbling under its effect. The novel’s tragic ending is not seen as love story but rather as a narration of how the hero and heroine, through the progress of their mutually developing relationship, have become independent enough to face challenges without regressing back into their previous passive roles. This paper concludes with a new reading of Catherine’s death that touches upon but necessarily excels beyond questions of gender and social identity to include an analysis of her soldier-like acceptance that applies to the silent forgotten unknown men and women who died alone with the same courage and integrity that Catherine exemplifies for Frederic and Hemingway’s readership.
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