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A goodbye to arms6/22/2023 ![]() This war in which Henry participated as a non-combatant in the Red Cross ambulance unit forms the backdrop of the novel. The Allies were later joined by the United States of America. The war which forms the background of the story was fought from (1914-1918) between the so called central powers comprising of the countries, Germany, Austria Turkey and Bulgaria, and the Allies which comprised of the states of France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, Belgium, Serbia, Romania and Portugalete. Hemingway has based the character background, the story itself on his personal experiences during the First World War. His style is stripped clean for action and terse dialogues, leaving everything to implication and suggestion. This was quite typical of Hemingway s best works. Its theme of universal loneliness in the midst of war, left an indelible mark of overwhelming emotion, severely controlled and conveyed with the fewest possible words. ![]() ![]() Readers found the novel fascinating as it dealt with a tragedy, a tragedy of man’s broken hopes and his farewell to everything that would count as important in one’s life. Reviewers referred to it as the new masterpiece. When A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929, it immediately went to the top of the bestseller list. ![]()
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