ll to Arms Catherine asks Henry if he feels trapped, now that she is pregnant. He admits that he does, "maybe a little". This idea, points out Killinger, is ingrained in Hemingway's thinking and that he was not too happy about fatherhood. In Cross Country Snow, Nick regrets that he has to give up skiing in the Alps with a male friend to return to his wife who is having a baby. In Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants the man wants his sweetheart to have an abortion so that they can continue as they once lived. In To Have and Have Not, Richard Gordon took his wife to "that dirty aborting horror". Catherine's death, in A Farewell to Arms, saves the author's hero from the hell of a complicated life. ...
