ant Henry in A Farewell to Arms (Reynolds 53). The Hemingway character feels a need for lovemaking without end in a scarcely real country to which neither owed life or allegiance (Fiedler 143). There is yet another theme that remains unexplored: war. This theme is evident in a lot of Hemingways writings. Hemingway produces this reverberated violence to portray his hero within the means of courage. Life is a trap in which a man is bound to be beaten and at last destroyed, but he emerges triumphant, in his full stature, if he manages to keep his chin up (Frohock 141). From the beginning, Hemingway has been less concerned with the relationship between humans than with the relationship between himself, or some projection of himself, and some aspect of violence. This harsh universe, is one where suffering and death are the rule, and which, in terms of what the humanbeing expects of it, stubbornly refuses to make sense. War, to Hemingway, was almost an escape to a reality in which he was used to; a reality of harsh means and unhappy endings (Frohock 141).The last point, the fixation on the Mediterranean basin, also embraces, as a kind of substitute, Cuba and parts of Latin America. Most of Hemingways books take place in Italian or Spanish-speaking countries; and he has an unusual command of both languages (Oliver 127). There is not much factual support leading to the reasons why Hemingway based his settings in these areas, however some say it is in his love for traveling and his near hatred of the typical, unromantic view of what he saw as America.Hemingways work, as a whole, has been a sort of literary catalyst which has affected the entire course of American writing, and like a catalyst it has remained untouched by and superior to all the imitations of it (Geismar 142). The emphases of many different themes and the images in which Hemingway portrays them vary, however, one thing remains the same: Hemingway had honestly worked within his ...
