Hemingway's Wars

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This paper takes a look at three of Hemingway's famous novels written during war time - "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bells Toll" and "A Soldier Home". It shows how the author experienced many of the tales told in these stories which make them more realistic. A brief summary of each of these stories is presented and a connection made to Hemingway's life.

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"War played a significant role in Ernest Hemingway s lifework. His novels- chronologically: A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway, 1957), For Whom the Bells Toll (Hemingway, 1940), and a collection of four short stories under the title, A Soldier Home (Hemingway, 1972) are respectively, about his experiences in Italy during the First World War, his contribution to a small slice of the Spanish Civil War, and coming home. All these novels are set against the backdrop of war, within the facts of a historical construct. The three works, however, are not merely narrations of wars. We learn little about the war as a whole. We learn about a facet of the war and its battles that the protagonist or narrator faces. Parallel to the fighting or descriptions of battles, Hemingway writes about the wars within: the turmoil of the soul, the upheavals of interpersonal relationships, and about love romantic and otherwise."

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