It is important that his main character can go through anything and still come out on top. By making Frederic experience so many things, it expresses how certain situations can make a person mature. Hemingway feels that his main character has to be the focus of everyone’s attention and maybe even suggests that he wants to be as strong as the main character he writes about. Other authors write just to write while Hemingway relates his characters to how he is or how he wants to be (Phelan, “Narrative Discourse…” 144). He wants to be strong courageous and strong-willed. Frederic Henry is the type of man that Hemingway has developed to be throughout the writing of this novel....
