When Frederic Henry Is Disillusioned about His Identity: Alienation in A Farewell to Arms: A CriticalAnalysis.

The research concentrates the protagonist, Lieutenant Frederick Henry's exploring his identity.A critical observation undertaken here presents Frederick Henry's sense of alienation that drives him all through his life shapes the end accordingly.His is a character presented in A Farewell to Arms is found as being in disillusionment and nervous condition.The research finds his failure to live in his homeland, America.Seeking the purpose of his life, he joined the Italian armies in W.W.I but he also has to escape Italy after his illusion about the war fades away.Later he has an affair with a British nurse, Catherine Barkley; and finally decides to be a family man.He elopes with her to Switzerland and also leads a life of three months of happiness but unfortunately he could not change the fate.Catherine Barkley dies of hemorrhages.If it is scrutinized, Frederick Henry's ultimate identity dilemma was the real life experiences that taste quite pessimistic the novelist, Ernest Hemingway could ever encounter.So charged with distress that Frederick Henry's planted happiness subtly turns to darkness of alienation.Perhaps, the idea that a pen could penetrate realities was hidden in the aftermath of Frederick Henry's alienation.