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I picked up the book (it is a collection of writings with Jung's writing on the subconscious the first one) to read Jung's theory on the subconscious/conscious duality and how he defines their interrelation. I started thinking about it after reading The Picture of Dorian Grey and the nature of permeable boundaries which I thought Wilde explored in the novel.

The story to me, besides being about WWI and the love interest between Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henri, is also about writing. Hemingway uses a lot of different methods: reciting dialogue in prose instead of quotations, sparse dialogue itself, observing incongruous juxtaposed details to create a larger, immediate description, for just a few examples. My third Hemingway novel and enjoyable.