f the book to add to the already terrible situation, and made the reader really see and feel the total distress of this scene. Throughout the book A Farewell to Arms, rain is an essential part of the books setting. Rain was used repeatedly to serve many specific purposes throughout the novel. Hemingway uses rain to establish a negative, depressed tone, as a warning that terrible events are soon to occur, and to accompany scenes which death occurs in, to add to the dreadful situation. Hemingway was extremely successful by doing this because it added so wonderfully to the rest of his book....