Feb
3
“We walked to the door and I saw her go in and down the hall. I liked to watch her move.”(32)
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I really like this quote because in another book in The Game of Thrones series, I read that was written by an american male, like Hemingway, one of the young boys in his novel also described how he liked the way a certain girl moved. I just liked the similarity and it has given my insight on what guys find attractive in women. This quote could be foreshadowing for how intimate the man and woman in this novel will be with eachother.The first sentence is a run on, and I think Hemingway did this on purpose to show you how most people think and speak in run on sentences. Also, this quote is from the man’s point of view in the story and I think that for him, thier relationship is mostly physical, but with some potential.
Feb
3
“This is a rotten game we play, isn’t it?” (31).
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Catherine Barkley says this to Henry acknowledging that their “romance” is simply a game. It’s important because their relationship had been her telling Henry she loved him, and his lies. It’s an unveiling of the ambiguity, both characters now are on mutual ground.
It’s also important because its a common theme of the love in war novels.
Feb
3
“The forest had been green in the summer when we had come into town but now there were the stumps and the broken trunks and the ground torn up” (6).
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I chose this quote because it related to what we have talked about earlier in class. The writers during this time put a lot of focus on the war and its affects to every part of life. Also, they talked about nature but in a different way than the Transcendentalists. This quote is more about how ugly and grey the nature is now as it has been affected by war. I also thought this was a quote because it symbolized how people’s life was changed by war.
Feb
3
“I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how night was better unless the day was very clean and cold” (13).
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This quote reminds me of the phrase, “ignorance is bliss.” The quote comes from a larger paragraph talking about getting drunk during the night and reveling in the inability to really know what was going on and the escape from knowing cold, hard facts. Night swallows up the certainty while day showers it down on you.It’s interesting because I think this is something many people want, but then there are others who want the exact opposite. This idea can tell a lot about people.
Feb
3
“I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how night was better unless the day was very clean and cold” (13).
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This quote reminds me of the phrase, “ignorance is bliss.” The quote comes from a larger paragraph talking about getting drunk during the night and reveling in the inability to really know what was going on and the escape from knowing cold, hard facts. Night swallows up the certainty while day showers it down on you.It’s interesting because I think this is something many people want, but then there are others who want the exact opposite. This idea can tell a lot about people.
Feb
3
A Farwell To Arms
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“Up the river the mountains had not been taken; none of the mountains beyond the river had been taken. That was all left for next year.” (3) This quote has alot of meaning because it predicts a long future. They are expecting to be there next year. This means that they will still be in Gorizia for a long time.
Feb
3
” ‘And you don’t have to say you love me. That’s all over for a while.’ She stood up and put out her hand. ‘Good night.’ ” (32)
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I thought that is quote was important because the book revolves around war and, presumably, how people are affected by it. The main character is clearly troubled by some illness, but it also seems that the other characters have similar ailments. Catherine, for example, who sought out a soldier so that she could pretend he was her dead fiance. There was some extrapolation on the subject of games, and playing people to one’s own advantage, but it seems to me that these people are also playing themselves.
Feb
3
“All thinking men are atheists.” pg. 8
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This quote from A Farewell to Arms is very interesting to me because of its ambiguity. You could view the quote as an appraisal of an atheistic belief due to its assertion that smarter, “thinking” men are atheists. Alternatively, you could see it in the way that god is found through means other than the brain. (The heart/etc.) I’m not sure which it should be, though the former definitely seems to be the more obvious interpretation.
Feb
3
“He was a very nice boy. He was going to marry me and he was killed in the Somme… It was a ghastly show.”(18)
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This is a quote from Catherine, which she said while she was explaining to Henry that the toy crop that she carries around used to belong to her fiance. However, this quote also shows the effects of war in general, it shows that many people have lost their friends and families to this war. The description of the battle as ghastly is what most interested me because it shows that Hemingway refuses to sugar coat things or give a glorious view of war.
Feb
3
“Miss Barkley prefers you to me. That is very clear.” (21)
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Rinaldi quickly recognizes Catherine’s feelings for Henry are greater than for him. I was a little surprised for him to have said it so casually, or at least from the ext it seem casual. Earlier he had been going on about how stricken he was with Catherine, but when he saw how she felt towards Henry he was quick to back off. It says something about Rinaldi’s character. He is either a very good friend to care more about Henry’s happiness than his own, or just promiscuous. Apart from what it means to Rinaldi, the quote signifies to the reader the beginning of a relationship between Henry and Catherine; from what i’ve read so far this will be a main theme in the novel.