The Symbol of Rain in the Novel “a Farewell to Arms”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51699/ijllal.v2i4.1610Keywords:
a dialogue, a novel, characters, an army, love affair, a nurse, to analyse, to describe.Abstract
In this article we will discuss the symbol of the rain in the novel “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway. This novel was written in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel describes a love affair between the expatriate from America and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. The novel is divided into five sections; Frederic Henry narrates the story in the first-person. Hemingway depicts weather realistically in “A Farewell to Arms” but he uses it for symbolic purposes as well. Rain, often equated with life and growth, stands for death in this novel.
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