Title
A Farewell to Arms: Modern Response, Naturalistic Fate
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
On Frederic and Catherine’s failure to create meaning in their meaningless world. Based largely on traditional Christian concepts, their order fails to fill the void because it lacks a spiritual afterlife and the means for regeneration. Discusses the novel’s contrast between the spiritual realm and the biological world.
Published in
American Literary Naturalism and Its Twentieth-Century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo
Date
1994
Pages
76-91
COinS
Citation
Civello, Paul. “A Farewell to Arms: Modern Response, Naturalistic Fate.” In American Literary Naturalism and Its Twentieth-Century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, 76-91. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.