A Farewell to Arms | Hemingway’s Writing Style, War Experiences, and Themes of Identity
In this essay, Arnold A. Markley discusses Hemingway’s distinctive writing style, use of his own war experiences, and examination of themes of identity as they appear in A Farewell to Arms.
Ernest Hemingway is known for his distinctive writing style, an unusually bare, straightforward prose in which he characteristically uses plain words, few adjectives, simple sentences, and frequent repetition. Nevertheless his powers of description are not diminished by his taking care to choose such simple language. Take a look, for example, at the opening paragraph of A Farewell to Arms.
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were...
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