Re: More Hemmingway
Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
I heard that while Hemingway was in the war he did
meet a nurse(I think she was Polish) was was older
than him and that is who Catherine was based upon.
Sadly this woman ended up marrying an older doctor,
and Hemingway was very upset. While I was reading A
Farewell to Arms I was somewhat annoyed with
Catherine's flighty behavior, but I greatly respected
her in the way that she still held on to her beliefs
even as she was facing death. I can imagine that
Hemingway portrayed Catherine the way he wanted her to
be, and not the way she really was. Hemmingway's big
ego would have prefered to have lost Catherine through
her death rather than him being dumped. (:
-Liz Friedman
-
I don't quite agree
> with your feeling of Catherine being a weak
> character, but I see how you could feel
> that way. At the end of the story, Fredrick refers
> to her/her corpse as a "statue" (a
> strong, immortalized figure) which makes me wonder
> what kind of information about
> Catherine, Hemmingway left out of the
> story...especially since he is said to have
> written almost everything directly from personal
> experience and it is a fact that he
> did have a "love" during the war while serving in
> the Italian Army.
> ~Sarah
>
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