ved. Ill and depressed, Ed committed suicide in 1928. Hemingway later referred to the situation by stating: "I hated my mother as soon as I knew the score and loved my father until he embarrassed me with his cowardice…My mother is an all time all American bitch and she would make a pack mule shoot himself, let alone poor bloody father." (Meyers 212) Hemingway uses "Indian Camp" to express his feelings that his father was a coward. He did this by having Nick's father refer to suicide as being "pretty easy," which is comparable to a coward's way out of life. Therefore, Hemingway uses the story to portray his father's death as cowardly. The characters and setting of "Indian Camp" are undoubtedly influenced by Hemingway's Childhood. In much of the same respect, Hemingway's second novel, A Farewell to Arms, has influences from his adult years spent in the war. A Farewell to Arms is a tragic love story in the midst of war. The main character, Fredrick Henry, is an ambulance driver in World War I who is wounded in the trenches. Henry, now a casualty, is sent to recover at an American hospital in Milan. During his stay, henry falls in love with a nurse by the name of Catherine Barkley. The couple then heads for Switzerland to escape the war and have a child. The novel takes an evil twist at the end though. Catherine dies while she is in labor, leaving Henry alone in the world. When comparing Ernest Hemingway and the character Frederick Henry, there are some very obvious resemblances. After not being allowed to join the army due to bad vision in his left eye, Hemingway joined the war effort during 1918 in Italy as an ambulance driver. Likewise, Hemingway made sure that Henry was also an ambulance driver in A Farewell to Arms. The most noticeable similarity is Hemingway's war wound. While passing out chocolate and cigarettes to soldiers at night, Hemingway was hit by a mortar shell. Wounded, but not dead, Hemingway picked up an nearby casua...
