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IJLLL 2024 Vol.10(3): 279-282
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2024.10.3.526

An Analysis of Whether Henry in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a Hero or Not

Yixing Wang1,* and Jiayao Guo2
1. School of Marxism, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
2. School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Email: wangyixing@mail.nwpu.edu.cn (Y.W.)
*Corresponding author

Manuscript received December 30, 2023; revised February 18, 2024; accepted March 22, 2024; published May 24, 2024

Abstract—Hemingway, one of the greatest American novelists in the 20th Century, is known for the depiction of tough guys. But in his A Farewell to Arms (1929), he portrays the main character, Frederic Henry as a deserter. Henry dreams of being a hero, but he doesn’t become one. In this essay, we will analyze the question that whether Henry is a hero or not from three perspectives. First, as a commander, he is not a traditional American hero, as he has failed in his mission and lost the lives of his soldier due to his arbitrary command. Second, he refuses to think and does not use his conscience to make moral decisions, so he cannot be called a philosophical hero. Last, his inability to confront the trauma of war, his avoidance of the past and reality, and his apparent calmness to preserve his dignity as a man, make him not a Hemingwayan code hero.

Keywords—A Farewell to Arms, traditional American hero, philosophical hero, code hero

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Cite: Yixing Wang and Jiayao Guo, "An Analysis of Whether Henry in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a Hero or Not," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 279-282, 2024.

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