David’s Reviews > A Farewell to Arms > Status Update

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.