Reflection on A Farewell to Arms and future reading

As some of you might know, for my outside reading I have been doing an author study on Ernest Hemingway. For the first book, I read his For Whom the Bell Tolls which I enjoyed greatly due to the amount of action combined with the flow of the plot along with the easy to understand sentence structure. The second book that I have been reading by him is, as in the title of this blog, A Farewell to Arms. I am about done with this book, so I thought for this blog I would share my thoughts about it.

Overall I did not enjoy the book as much as For Whom the Bell Tolls. One significant reason that I think this was the case is the difference in the plots. In the more interesting book the story was focused on a guerrilla gang and their encounters with the fascists. On the other hand, A Farewell to Arms was about an American ambulance driver and his love toward an English nurse. This made it less interesting for me and thus I provided less attention to the book.

I am not trying to say that reading A Farewell to Arms is a waste of time. This book has great literal values and important themes of life. One such theme is how much should one do for their loved ones. This theme is consistently present throughout the book which can be seen by Henry and his actions toward Miss Barkley. 

The third and final book that I am planning to read to conclude my author study on Ernest Hemingway is The Sun Also Rises. My experience with Hemingway has been extremely pleasant so far, and I believe that my final book will also be a good read like the previous two books.