farewell to arms

The book Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway is the story of a young American Lieutenant ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War 1. The setting of the story is Goriza, a small town that had been captured by the Italian Army. The town looked across a river and in the plains to the mountains, in which fighting was taking place, not more than a few miles away. The young Americans name was Frederic …

…the mother, especially since the baby was still born, a large baby boy, but deceased. After the birth Catherine had complications, she too died soon after. Which is what Frederick had feared even before her giving birth because of the extreme pain she had been in. An incredibly tragic ending to a book that could have blossomed from a war set love story to the beautiful life and future and family of Frederick and Catherine.