Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (main characters)
In fact, Catherine's resistance
holds out much longer than Henry's: even after Henry emphatically states that he loves
her and that their lives together will be splendid, Catherine exhibits the occasional doubt,
telling him that she is sure that dreadful things await them and claiming that she fears
having a baby because she has never loved anyone. Privy only to what Catherine says,
not to what she thinks, the reader is left to explain these infrequent lapses in her
otherwise uncompromised devotion. Her premonition of dreadful things, for instance,
may simply be a general alarm about the war-torn world or residual guilt for loving a man
other than the fiancé whom she is mourning as the book opens. While the degree to
which Catherine is conflicted remains open to debate, her loyalty to Henry does not. She
is a loving, dedicated woman whose desire and capacity for a redemptive, otherworldly
love makes her the inevitable victim of tragedy.
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