A farewell to arms is a story concerning the drama and passion of a doomed romance between an American student Henry Frederic,

, and an English nurse Catherine Barley. In this field, Hemingway confirms that even the world is in chaos, Love between people still is able to bud and flower. Secondly, A Farewell to Arms is also a survey of war in which Hemingway writes clearly and realistically about The Warfare, that is the dispute including power ruining rationality. In the darkness of the death, Henry and Catherine find that receiving a Life favor means paying a cost at the same time. Firstly, about Appearance: - Catherine Barley is an English nurse, she attends the war indifferently, and chilly with innocent and romantic dream: having a chance to nurse her fianc when he injures having a silly idea he might come to the hospital where I was. With a saber cut, I suppose, and a bandage around his head. Or shot through the shoulder. Something picturesque. [chapter 4] - Catherine is exceptionally beautiful and possesses, perhaps, the most sensuously described hair in all of literature. As Henry described She wore what seemed to me to be a nurses uniform, was blond and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. I thought she was very beautiful. - The tragic death of fianc makes her a little crazy, and becomes hating the war, only wants it to stop. She and her fianc grew up together eight years. - Throughout the novel, Catherine loves Henry. She and the child die at the end of novel in the rain. Secondly, about Characters:

- Shes a brave woman, as Frederic says to her so many times. Shes traveled to a foreign country to help take care of wounded men. She tells Frederic that her initial move to Italy was out of solidarity for her dead fianc, but that doesnt change the fact that she works tirelessly throughout most of the novel, and most of her pregnancy, tending to the men wounded in the war. She is fiercely independent and can take care of herself in foreign countries, with or without Frederic.
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Catherine is extremely romantic, she loves being in love, and she does want to please Frederic. Shes also desperately lonely when she meets him. She really does want to be "one" with him. She wants a special love, and she wants it more intensely because she sees gloom and doom all around her.

- Catherine is a complex woman. Her complexity is probably a big part of what attracts Frederic to her in the first place. He doesnt want a blow-up doll. Catherines views on marriage are one good example of this complexity. They demonstrate her conflict between not following the social norms she doesnt care about, and conforming to such norms because doing so makes life easier.
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She always sacrifices for others. She tells Frederic she didnt marry her fianc because she thought it would be bad for him that it would trap him: I was a fool not to. I could have given him that anyway. But I thought it would be bad for him.

- Unlike Henry who simply floats through his life reacting to whatever comes his way. Catherine attempts to achieve her desires by doing things like having herself reassigned to the hospital in Milan where Henry is sent after he is injured. At the end of novel, Catherine and the child die, leaving Henry alone in the rain. So to now we known why Catherine is afraid of the rain. She gives her reasons: + "Its very hard on loving "(Catherines fianc died in the rain) + "And sometimes I see you dead in it"

+ "Im afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it" -