Autobiographical Elements in ‘A Farewell to Arms’ by Hemingway

By MSM YAQOOB

Here my description will be a mixture of historical elements as well as the novel’s reference so we can find out autobiographical elements in this piece of writing. Let’s start it.

The novel is a vivid and beautiful description of Hemingway’s own past life in one way or another due to the heavy use of his memories and love affairs. Some of the features of Hemingway's life include the love affair between Fredric and Barkley, the hero's wounding on the battlefield, his sorrow and frustration, and the hero's peaceful life. In fact, Hemingway had been injured by a mortar shell and he was taken to a Milan hospital for treatment in the late summer and early fall of 1918. Despite the fact that Hemingway spent less time and played a less part in World War I than his protagonist, although the parallels between their experiences are remarkable.

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 By telling about his love, Harold Lock explores the epoch of history and believes that it was Agnes Von Kurowsky, an American with Polish heritage who worked as a Red Cross nurse, was who she claimed to be. After Hemingway's return to the United States in early 1919, she deliberately ended the relationship by letter. Mr. J. C. Buck is responsible for the papers that chronicle the occurrence.

It can also be stated that the hero-narrator and the creator have certain parallels. They are both Americans. Both are ambulance drivers. Both have been injured in the conflict.

His lover Von Kurowsky was certainly the inspiration for the heroine in A Farewell to Arms. “Let's get it straight—please,” she remarked in 1976 when asked about Hemingway's work. That wasn't my type of girl.” She reacted angrily to the question that she and Hemingway were lovers, and the hospital affair "completely impossible."

As a result, three factors in Hemingway's life impacted many of his views, as well as much of his work: The fact that he sustained a severe and devastating mortar wound during World War I, which made him aware of the dreadful possibility of losing his masculinity; The fact that his father committed himself, as well as the reality that he was growing old and the worries that aging brought with it.

Hemingway suffered from a fear of letting go as well as a dread of thinking. The nightmare of disorder, of becoming passive, of losing one's will, initiative, and male role—it was a dreadful nightmare that had to be avoided at all costs.