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Summary: Chapter 9. At Pavla, Henry sees roadside trenches filled with artillery and Austrian observation balloons hanging ominously above the distant hills. A major greets Henry and his drivers and installs them in a dugout. The men talk disparagingly about the various ranks of soldiers and engage Henry in a discussion about ending the war.
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Summary: Chapter X. The tattered man marvels at the strength that Jim mustered before death, wondering how he managed to run when his injury should have rendered him unable to walk. Henry and the tattered man move away from the corpse. The tattered man says that he is feeling “pretty damn’ bad,” and Henry worries that he is about to ...
Summary: Chapter 10. At the field hospital, Henry lies in intense pain. Rinaldi comes to visit and informs Henry that he, Henry, will be decorated for heroism in battle. Henry protests, declaring that he displayed no heroism, but Rinaldi insists. He leaves Henry with a bottle of cognac and promises to send Catherine to see him soon.
Analysis. At Pavla, the site of the battle, Henry and the drivers he commands— Gordini, Passini, Manera and Gavuzzi —wait for the battle to begin while sitting in a bunker. The men fall into a philosophical argument. While all the men hate the war, Henry argues that defeat is more terrible than war, and that if the entire Italian army just ...
Henry VIII's jousting accident of 1536 was a pivotal moment in history that marked the beginning of his decline as a king and a man. Henry became increasingly despotic, executing not just wives but also long-standing advisors and friends on charges that ranged from treason to heresy. The atmosphere of fear and suspicion weakened the traditional ...
Confused, the tattered man stutters and protests, and starts to mistake Henry for another soldier. But Henry cannot face up to his own guilt. Instead, he runs away from it like a child, even though he knows the tattered man will die without him. Henry leaves, abandoning the tattered man to wander in the field.
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When he walks out of the hospital at novel's end, Lieutenant Frederic Henry is a different man than he was at the opening of A Farewell to Arms. He has caught up to Catherine Barkley and now understands the world and his place in it. Sadly, he carries that understanding into the rain alone and broken, and forever without her. PreviousChapter XLI.
