eir insight. Frederick had the chance to leave the war, but he was a fool. This foolish attitude is what led him to get shelled. The injury to his leg, as unanticipated as it was, was the first tragic hint that he needed to get out. Also, by witnessing Passini’s intolerable suffering and,just as unexpected, death should have capped off his thoughts about the war. But, he was still a little boy and was not ready to move on. When Frederick encountered the man with the truss, he was only acting as an officer and not a person. He did not see the fact that the man needed his help to get out. Frederick became part of the malevolence as the man would probably die later in the war, as so many did. Henry was slowly learning the cost of the war, but the cost of love came abruptly and the suffering that followed could make or break Frederick as a man. He learns that biology is simply a trap. The death of Catherine and the baby surely helped him see that when someone is born they are already marked for death and that the death can come so quickly. Frederick, first learned from Catherine that being in love brings suffering, as her fianc dies during the war. This has a horrible affect on her because she knows that she must live with this suffering the rest of her life. In a link to another Hemingway character, Jake Barnes, Fred learns the hard way, also, as he impregnates Catherine to spawn life, but winds up killing her and the baby. Frederick also learns that the cost of friendship is great, however it, too, can be vulnerable to bad things. Fred can see this through Rinaldi, and the constant whoring around he does. Rinaldi contracts syphilis. Frederick knows he will lose a friend, so he must go on without him. Frederick, no matter what the cost of love, will have to go on alone. With the death of Catherine, he learns he will have to cope with suffering.Frederick also learns that the malevolence of the world is everywhere and there is no way o...
