hemingway

Hemingway sets up a precedent for the rest of novel when he delineates rain as the basis for disease and destruction because it causes the soldiers to succumb to cholera. Denoting the decline in morale in the characters, the degradation can be attributed to the presence of the prominent symbol as seen when Frederic is leaving the hospital after Catherine dies: ¡°It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain¡±(Hemingway 332). The effect of rain communicates the desolation and the void in the characters¡¯ lives: ¡°In A Farewell to Arms, the dominant state of mind¡ªthe sense of death, defeat, failure, nothingness, emptiness-is conveyed chiefly by the image of the rain (with all its tonal associates, mist, wet, damp, river, fog) by images and epithets of desolation¡¦¡±(Schneider 176). Furthermore, doom and death also correlate with the ominous emblem because it is present when several thousand s...