E. Hemingway. a Farewell to Arms. Chapter 37. Analyses

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“A farewell to arms” presents the history of a morally wounded young American in the midst of the horrors of World War 1. The text under analyses is an passage form the novel. From the passage we learn that Lieutenant Frederic Henry deserts from the Italian army with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. They are sick and tired of the war, try to find underneath the shifting values of their disenchantment something to which they could cling. In this novel it is love. The story is the first personal narration. The passage gives an example of how deserters were received in Switzerland during World War 1, the attitude of Swiss officials and lieutenant to them. They are polite towards everyone who had money. Lieutenant saw that Catherine and Frederic have enough money and want to spend it. Author shows us that lieutenant's and officials behavior, it is appears that money is the most important thing in theirs lives and work. But I can not guess whether the author blames them or not. Moreover it is not only the way of behavior of these officials, but also the policy of the country. The passage begins with unexpected beginning. It makes it clear that there are some actions in this story before. It seems to me impossibly to distinguish the certain climax of the story, but after the development of the idea in the first dialogues the Frederic's monologue that begins with words:”We drove to Locarno...” seems to be the center of the story. And then the idea of the passage gradually comes to it's end. From the point of the development of idea the text could be parted into three logical parts. The first – from the arrest of the deserters and to the Frederic's monologue. The second – the monologue itself. The third - from the monologue up to the end of the passage. The first part shows the arrest of deserters and formal, cold treatment of the officer. He questions them as

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