Title
A Farewell to "Separate Peace": The Protagonists in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Heller’s Catch-22 as Prototypical of Differing Strategies for Survival
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Comparison study of each novel’s representation of their generation’s struggle with war. Contrasts Frederic Henry’s process of coping with strict ethical boundaries as he finds his “separate peace” with Yossarian’s permanent pursuit of survival, concluding that their attitudinal differences reflect the change in social values between the eras.
Published in
Entwicklungslinien: 120 Jahre Anglistik in Halle
Date
1997
Pages
93-116
COinS
Citation
Schulze, Martin. “A Farewell to ‘Separate Peace’: The Protagonists in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Heller’s Catch-22 as Prototypical of Differing Strategies for Survival.” In Entwicklungslinien: 120 Jahre Anglistik in Halle, edited by Wolf Kindermann, 93-116. Münster, Germany: LIT, 1997.