A Farewell to ArmsA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Why would you end it as you did Hemingway? It ripped my heart apart. The whole book was sweet things and innocent talk (apart from war details) and then it ends like a building coming down in an earthquake. I was engrossed in the book and I felt like I personally lost something. I understood what I was wondering while reading this book the whole time; What makes Hemingway such a great writer? What's so special about him? The book seemed a normal account of a war and a lovestory on sidelines. It was only after finishing I understood. He keeps you unaware of any tragedy which might be possible and then hits you with the most tragic, sad ending. No explanations given, no consolance offered. Though, I felt extremely sad at the end, I understood that grief is one of the strongest emotions and most effective in literature, I guess. All the greatest stories have tragic element and they are great beacause we relate to it somehow. It was a surprise ending and it chaged my whole perspective about Hemingway as an author.

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