A Farewell to Arms is a typical love story. It is much like Romeo and Juliet. Frederick Henry representing a similar role to Romeo and Catherine Barkley to Juliet. Like the love of Romeo and Juliet, the conflicting environment and people around them challenged their love. Frederick and Catherine are placed against significant odds in this novel. They must survive the obstacles of World War I. War-torn Italy serves as a background adding to the …showed first 75 words of 536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 536 total…t have been able to allow him to be involved in the war for fear of losing her own stability with his death. He and Catherine make a life for themselves totally cut off from everything else. Frederick feels stable and secure in life which is now completely in order. However he needed to learn how to depend on himself and not on her love. Her death taught him to look for it within himself.