er a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain”(Pg. 332). Just as he had walked out of Amyo’s and his son’s life, he walked out of his wife’s. All of these events occurred in the rain. Even when he walked out of the Italian Army it was all done while it was raining. Finally, after all of these terrible happenings, Fredric’s fear of the rain causes him to speak to God. This is the first time he has spoken to God, throughout the entire book. This shows how his fear of the rain has brought him to the realization that rain means death.The rain was always a constant theme in Fredric’s loss of family and friends in the book. The rain was used to set the mood of a situation and always foreshadowed a death. People often experience a state of depression by the dismal affects of a rainstorm. Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms effectively uses the rain as a symbol to link with death. The reader can understand to this association because of the many instances connecting rain and death throughout the story. ...
