A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is based largely on Hemingway's
own personal experiences. The main character of the novel, Frederic Henry,experiences many of the same situations that Hemingway lived. Some of these similarities are exact, while some are less similar, and some events have a completely different outcome.
Hemingway felt throughout his life,
powerless, and so to escape this, he created alternative lives by writing
stories. Hemingway, who fell in love with Agnes, an American nurse, seven
years older than he, while wounded in Milan, was deeply hurt after she didn't
return his affections. While the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, up until
this point is similar, this is where the story changes. In the book,
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