A Farewell to Arms | Character Overview

Character Overview
As with other Hemingway works, the element of character study in A Farewell to Arms is as important as the story being told about those characters. At the center of the story are the ill-fated lovers, Frederic and Catherine, surrounded by a supporting cast of many minor characters.

Frederic Henry, the narrator and protagonist of the novel, appears at the beginning of the novel to be shallow and a little unfeeling. He is an American who has come to Italy to study architecture, then joined the Italian ambulance corps at the...


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