Assess The Importance Of Restatement In Hemingway's

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Additionally, Hemingway uses restatement while describing what he wishes he could do to expand on how war can leave you with hopeless desires that claw at your state of mind. “After supper I would go and see Catherine Barkley. I wish she were here now. I wished I were in Milan with her. I would like to eat to eat at the Cova and then walk down the Via Manzoni in the hot evening and cross over and turn off along the canal and go to the hotel with Catherine Barkley.” (Hemingway 31). Hemingway’s restatement of Frederic’s desires during the war such as “I wish she were here now” and “I wished I were in Milan with her” show how war can leave you in constant need of what you had and did before. In particularly, Hemingway describes how Frederic was