Lost in the ending of , I realized I had finished this book. This is a book concerning with love and war—the permanent themes of novels. Ernest Hemingway, a great American novelist, was well-known for his novel. As far as I am concerned, he was a tough guy leading a hard life which shaped his personality of persistence and stubborn. This great writer led a live of 62 years, from 1899 to 1961. In 1917, when he graduated from public school, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in Italy during World War I. And for his service, Hemingway was twice decorated by the Italian government. As a soldier and journalist, he developed his own writing style—‘the iceberg theory’. It suggests that the writer includes in the story only a small portion of the plots, and leaves about ninety percent of the content to be savored by the reader themselves. Hemingway thought that a good writer didn’t need to reveal every detail of a character or action. Leave something as a mystery can be attractive and meaningful. I’ve read his short story. This short story, again, is about war, love and life. Compared to the novel, is more ambiguous and hard to understand. It comes to the fact that every time I read it, I get a different sense of the story. But there is one point of view that I can always sense from the words of Hemingway---stop warfare, stop fighting and violence. This world needs peace and love. Hemingway was called one of the ’lost generation’. This is a generation whose ambitions and ideals were influenced by warfare and this fact led to their lost in lives. They sometimes feel painful and empty about life. Just like the soldier Henry in .
is a novel tells the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army during World War I. He fell in love with a British nurse Catherine Barkley. When he was wounded, Catherine looked after him in the hospital during his recuperation, and their affection developed rapidly. But Henry had to leave...