They were always together. This is an unhealthy life style. They were creating their own fortress and isolating themselves from the world. '"My life used to be.

             full of everything," I said. 'Now if you aren"t with me I haven"t a thing in the world."" p. 257. This quote further supports the idea that they are isolating themselves from the world. Since they were so cut off from the outside world, Mr. Henry has even a more difficult time going back into the reality of life after her death. This theme of man and woman isolated in love and finally their loss to dark death is universal. .

             The most profound aspect of this book would be its ageless symbolism. The free-living, heavy-drinking life that Catherine and Mr. Henery shared could be compared to the heavy investing, speculating and consequence-free life of the 20"s. The product that came from Catherine and Mr. Henry"s lifestyle was a dead child. The result of the over- investing of the 20"s was the great depression. So the baby symbolizes the depression. Another point to consider was that Mr. Henry was a deserter. He left the army to be with Catherine. Desertion was illegal and he paid for it by loosing that which he loved the most, Catherine. Rain was connected with pain or grief. He drank to dull.

             this grief or pain. Rain is wet and "wet" is connected with alcohol. "We had each been drinking out of one of the bottles and I took my bottle with me and went over and lay flat on the hay and looked out the narrow window at the wet country." p.217. In this scene, he has been thinking of Cat and he decided that it would be best to drink his troubles away. When Hemingway said that the land was "wet", it usually meant that Mr. Henry was drunk. After Catherine and the baby died at the hospital, Mr. Henry walked home in the rain. "After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the.