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1984
Joseph La Fornara
9 December 2008
English 4
Mrs. scott
Throughout the novel A Fare Well to Arms Ernest Hemingway uses the literary device of rain, not as a symbol of growth and life but as a recurring symbol of death despair and hopelessness. The symbol of rain frequently replaces emotions and is used repeatedly at different points in the novel often allowing the reader to predict what may occur. Characters die, or are horrifically maimed and yet there is no mention of sadness or emotion. There is only the rain. Hemingway portrays the hopelessness of war the sense of failure and emptiness mainly through imagery of rain, mist, wetness, and dampness.
In as early as the first chapter the reader begins to clearly understand that rain symbolizes death, destruction and ruin: “In the fall when the rains came the leafs all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain,”(04) Henry goes on. “The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with autumn”(97). “At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.”(99) This rain foreshadows an out break of cholera in which seven thousand men die. Rain and death are linked clearly linked in this passage but Henry shows no emotion in retelling the events. Rain represents not only death but also the emotions of grief pain and despair surrounding death.
Hemingway uses rain in regard to war as he describes it raining continuously when the Italians must retreat from Caporetto and the oncoming Germans as they lose the battle. Again rain is used to depict a sense of defeat, death, and failure as well as foreshadow the death to come during the retreat. During a discussion with his fellow ambulance drivers about the wine they are drinking, the driver named Aymo mentions “tomorrow we may drink rain water” (130). In fact the only driver to survive the retreat is Henry, as the following day...
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