re to a place of recuperation and holiday”(1). The second half of each novel again leads to a “wounding”; and it too is followed by departure to a place of recuperation and holiday. In both novels, “the second half tends to be a disguised and intensified version of the action structure or simple story presented in the first half”(1). Adair points out that at the beginning, the novels open with the same sequence of events. Both open with a brief history. Presumably both of these opening scenes occur in the late fall, because a winter-long hiatus follows. Each novel then resumes in the spring, “which is when the heroine enters the story. Jake leaves a prostitute when he meets Brett; Frederic, bored with the prostitutes at the Villa Rosa, goes to the garden and meets Catherine”(2). I think It is difficult to imagine Hemingway being unaware of these possibilities. The opening spring section of each novel “transpires over a period of four or five days. Also generally the action is much the same”(2). The second halves of these novels are similar too. The Pamplona section begins with” Jake pulling into the town square in front of Montoya’s hotel and meeting Montoya. Fredric’s story begins with his pulling into the town square in front of the Town Major’s villa and meeting the major”(3). The first evening in Pamplona, Mike, at a care, blows up at Cohn. On Fredric’s first evening back, Rinaldi , at dinner, blows up at the priest. So these two novels are similar in terms of their basic structure. I am sure Hemingway was aware of the structural similarities between the two novels. Therefore this article shows tells us how Ernest Hemingway used The Sun Also Rises as source for A Farewell to Arms. References: Lania, Leo. Hemingway, London: 1961References: Adair, William. “The Sun Also Rises: The Source of A Farewell to Arms.” University Press of Ke...
