Compare and Contrast of A Fare

Compare and Contrast Essay of Arthur Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms At the midpoint of For Whom the Bell Tolls, I find myself both unable to distinguish this from A Farewell to Arms and reluctant to finish the story at all. The man whose writing I last found to be extraordinary and enlightening became tedious when copied between two different covers and attempted to be passed off as …

…my cynicism would be alleviated had the novels contained more of a variety and cross-section of life; instead of focusing on war and what can be learned from and within death, a new setting and set of characters could do justice to another horror of twentieth century life. In defense of both the author and myself, the difficulty in being a Hemingway scholar is not his lack of information, merely his difficulty in presenting it.