Comparing The Soul In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

Frederic has become aware of the soul and in his relation with Catherine he has achieved a greater awareness of life more than the experience he has attained from war; he realizes that life extends beyond the physical desires and beyond the physical body and realizes that the men who insist to maintain the war ignore the soul. Hemingway once said that he rewrote the last page of the novel thirty-nine times before getting his satisfaction of it, which places the emphasis that Hemingway’s real goal was not to end the novel with the tragic vision of Catherine’s death but to reveal the betterment of the man after committing a fault against himself. Frederic, whose all previous concerns have been about the sensuality of his world and whom he has refused the existence of the soul unless he can see it, has attained a real love that has enabled him to realize the difference between the body and the soul.

Cummings’s The Enormous and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, are the only outstanding World War books written by Americans” (Calmer, 1932, p.342). In addition to these characteristics of both novels, Dos Passos, like his contemporary Ernest Hemingway, has got a sense of social injustice, meaninglessness, the chaotic and irrational world at the war time that have been drawn from his experience on the front, as well as he has got that great awareness of the souls. As it happened with Hemingway, the war spirit had it’s great influence to make Dos Passos volunteer to the army; he has joined the Volunteers Service in France in 1917, and one year later he has moved to the Red Cross in Italy and then to serve in the U.S. Army Medical