A Farewell To Arms

I see how feminists would come to hate this book, and it is only because they overlooked the signature: that the book provides so much honesty in the dialogue while being a step away from reality. Yes, Catherine Barkley may have sounded so shallow; however, Frederic Henry was also presented above the machismo standard, as emphasized by his lack of feelings for the baby.

Another juxtaposition that stood out to me was of war and childbirth – both of heavily varying nature but bringing along with them the same kind of grief, suffering and death.

And as always, I am captured by the style of writing by Hemingway, which is a mix of heavily descriptive prose and blunt poetry. So many lines that brought me goosebumps.

I cried at the end.