In the spring of the next year, the war has been witnessing the fiercest fighting and at this time Frederic meets Catherine in the gardens of the villa that surrounded the British hospital and with an attempt from him to kiss her, he get a slap from her, but then she grants him a kiss and tells him her recent loss of her fiancé on the Somme front in France, which brought her great shock and then she details that this battle was the most horrific fighting and cost the lives of many British soldiers. Frederic describes his relation to Catherine and his flirtation with her as a game of chess in which the players know what is coming next saying that “She was looking at me in the dark. I was angry and yet certain, seeing it all ahead like the moves in a chess game” ( 24), then he supports his …show more content…
His ties with his family have not been appeared apparently but it is obvious that he has a wealthy family who sponsors his travels. His relations with his men and other officers are with good rapport sharing them jokes, drinks and visiting whore houses. Frederic appears also as a sensitive man to other’s dignity and doesn’t indulge in funs teasing other’s personality; he feels sympathy to the priest when other officers try to tease him and never shares them that humor. Thus A Farewell to Arms narrates the story of a developing character who finds himself involved in war and love without real understanding for both and soon thereafter he grows to amateur and to a man of strong realization to the destructive world around him. He is disillusioned with all his experiences whether with the loss of Catherine’s gentleness or with the physical and psychological wound of the war but he proves that he is not entirely defeated by both and insists to place his dignity over what he has