s and how courageous of a person Frederic was. “’He wasn’t alive.’ ‘He was dead?’ ‘They couldn’t start him breathing. The cord was caught around his neck or something’” (Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 327). Because Frederic went through two deaths, the death of his baby and his love, it shows us how much of a caring person he is. The death’s just show us that he is a caring person although we know that he is a caring person already. “I shot three times ad dropped one” (Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 204). The action of Frederic shooting the Sergeant shows that he is a man of honor and will keep his commitments to the war as long as the war is going on (Noaln 273).Hemingway suggests confusion of Frederic’s identity through a number of scenes in which he is misidentified by other characters. He is an American in an Italian uniform, which makes him an oddity to the book (Nagel 190). Perhaps being an American and having to be in an Italian uniform and help a country that isn’t even his is enough confusion for him. “Furthermore, in sending that signal, the control and deliberateness also signify that Frederic has taken the final step in his remarkable growth from authoritative spouter of conventional wisdom to understated but informed source of Hemingway’s own values” (Phelan, “The Concept of Voice…” 229). Hemingway grows throughout the novel just as much as his own character Frederic Henry does (Nagel 190). This was one of the first novels that Hemingway wrote and throughout the book he shows us through Frederic that he is becoming more mature, just like Frederic is. Both of them go through go up and won and you know that Hemingway is going through different experiences because of the roller coaster ride that he takes Frederic on. Hemingway makes his main character the strongest and most courageous person in the book. ...
