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Quite a study about the manners in which the tenant farmer is at the mercy of capitalism's unforgiving ferocity and nature's whims.

I am not sure why I am re-reading so many parts of this story and taking my time with this novel. Many reasons perhaps, but the main one is that I really enjoy the way Hawthorne sculpts his characters from the inside out. As the story goes on, the physical descriptions of each character grows based on their internal moral, spiritual and emotional descriptions. So very interesting.

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.