![]() It was alright with me.” Like what? Is this supposed to be a wartime romance novel, an allegory on the futility of war, a commentary on the disposability of human life, or something else? I just don’t like the idea of any person toying with someone’s emotions simply due to boredom or as a release from the violence of war. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Initially Henry finds nurse Barkley to be beautiful, but he also claims loving her is not his true intention: “I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. Reason number one, the romance between the protagonist Frederic Henry and the nurse Catherine Barkley. A Farewell to Arms, I felt, was less boring than The Old Man and the Sea–yet, equally wasteful of my time. Anyway, I figured one book probably isn’t a good enough metric to discount a writer. The first time was on an episode of ABC’s show Fresh off the Boat–I never said the book came up solely in my personal conversations. This was the second time it popped up casually in conversation. For example, I only read The Old Man and the Sea because my neighbor mentioned reading it with her daughter. However, Hemingway’s name always seems to come up in random conversations. The first book I read from him this year was the Old Man and the Sea, which I found to be dull. * No Copyright Infringement Intended for the above Image*Įrnest Hemingway just earned his second strike from me.
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