(Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 321).This made him realize that life and love comes and goes quickly. He learned the most important lesson of his life from that experience. Don’t take life for-granted.“The emotional quality of this progression is similar to that which we associate with tragedy: as Frederic slowly changes he becomes more and more aligned with Hemingway’s norms and this more estimable in the eyes of the authorical audience” (Phelan, “Narrative Discourse…” 139). By the end of the novel he is fitting into Hemingway’s code hero character because he has progressed so much from the beginning to the end. The changes have been slow, but to the audience he has changed to one of Hemingway’s true code heroes by the end.By the end of the novel he is completely exposed to the raw nature and hatred that war brings. “Frederic now knows that destructiveness not only of the war but also of the world; indeed, he has experiences that destruction firsthand in the most excruciating way imaginable” (Phelan, “The Concept of Voice…” 229). Henry survives many tests (losing his friends and loved ones) and because he has grown from this, it makes him admirable. Frederic is no longer blind to the nature of the war by the end of the novel. He has learned that in order to survive the worst of things you have to be a strong person on the inside as well as on the outside.Hemingway shows us that Frederic is a strong character by putting him through many trying and tedious tests during his wartime experience. “Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh-then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind” (Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 54). By explaining the war and what happened, Hemingway expresses how dangerous and life-threatening it wa...
