John Stubbs' "Love And Role Playing In A Farewell To Arms"
John Stubbs' "Love and Role Playing in A Farewell to Arms"
John Stubbs' essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and
Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance
and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent to their well being..." He asserts
that "role-playing" by the two main characters, and several others in the book,
is a way to escape the realization of human mortality which is unveiled by war.
Stubbs thinks that Hemingway utilized role-playing as a way to "explore the
strengths and weaknesses of his two characters." Stubbs says that by placing
Henry's ordered life in opposition to Catherine's topsy-turvy one, and then
letting each one assume a role which will bring them closer together, Hemingway
shows the pair's inability to accept "the hard, gratuitous quality of life."
Stubbs begins by showing other examples, notably in In Our Time and The Sun Also
Rises, in which Hemingway's characters revert to role-playing in order......
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