Facing death in A Farewell to Arms"I'm afraid of the rain because sometimes I imagine myself dead inside" (P 126). This is a short quote from A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms has an unexpected death at the end. The reader sympathizes with the main character as he matures from the beginning to the conclusion of the novel. A Farewell to Arms is a love story during the First World War. The novel centers on Lieutenant Fredric Henry, an American who volunteered for the Italian war. the army drives ambulances in Europe because the United States has not yet entered the war. Fredric is known as a lost man searching for order and value in his life. He is very submissive and doesn't care about himself or the war. In the first book of the novel, Fredric is characterized, along with the other characters. In the first book, Fredric takes a break from the war and travels the country in search of his purpose in life. During the second book, Fredric returns to the city on the war front and meets his closest friend, Rinaldi, who introduces Fredric to Catherine. Barkely. Catherine is a French nurse with whom Fredric immediately falls in love. Fredric finds commitment to her and they begin to spend time together. Their relationship brings order and value to his life. He begins to care more about himself and Catherine. Being away from the war, Fredric feels safe with Catherine. When they are together, war seems to not exist. “The war seemed as distant as anyone else's college football games,” Fredric says (P 63). Catherine has experience when it comes to love and loss since she lost her fiancé in a previous war. He can't depend on another person, so he tries not to depend on Fredric to bring order to his life and less chaos. This then allows her to be emotionally stronger when Fredric has to go to war again. While at war, Fredric and his other driver friends are sitting in a cave, when the Austrians attack. Fredric is shot in the knee while trying to help his friend, who dies. Fredric is taken to hospital in Milan. When he arrives at the hospital, Rinaldi and Caterina come to visit him.