all time, A Farewell To Arms is Ernest Hemingway's intense yet

simple take of two young lovers who meet during the chaos of W.W.I

and the relationship that endures until it's tragic end. A Farewell To

Arms effected society as a whole, as well as being widely known as a

very significant part of the literary canon. This assertion is proven

by the opinions of celebrated authors and professors throughout the

Society was effected greatly by this book. The main way was

that it gave the mothers, wives, and children of the men that had

gone to war in the 1920's a chance to read about what it might have

been like for their loved ones as they were fighting. "This novel

remains one of Hemingway's best works just of it's descriptions of

army life..." (Geismar). Never before had the people who stayed on

the home front realized the magnitude of fighting in the war,

whether it was on the front line, or lik

as a master with a secure and preeminent place in the literary world.

natural and make a convincing narrative" (Cape). Another theme

writing. Society hadn't been introduced to literature that talked

Hemingway's true and honest portrayal of the love between the two,

The love story present in the novel, as well as the approach

unrivaled in modern literature, effecting society and very simply

Furthermore, Hemingway's honest depiction of dealing with

story line alone that made the book such an immense success, as

(Hutchinson). A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A

They were wrong. "It was freshness... it is a moving and beautiful

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