Henry says he had wanted to go to Abruzzi but.’ I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear cold and dry and the snow was dry and powdery iron where it was clear and the peasants took off their hats and called you Lord and there was the rain continue intermittently throughout the retreat and as Henry flees to Stresa and a reunion with Catherine, the rain falls steadily in the background. The image of the mountain gets a further emphasis from a contrast to the plain. He has been almost everywhere on the Italian pensile except Abruzzi. Henry visits all the right places where he indulges in casual sex. And Henry himself goes to whorehouses all over Italy but never goes to Abruzzi. However the captain interrupts the priest to ask everyone to go to the brothel. The people are also very warm and hospitable. The priest then describes the place as one where it is cold and dry as opposed to the war front which is cold and wet. It is developed from chapter two onwards when Henry is asked by the priest to visit his native place in Abruzzi. The mountain symbol is introduced in the very first chapter but it is not developed.

The Whorehouse and the Mountain of Abruzzi The concept of being away from home is brought out in association with low-lying plains, with rain and fog, with obscenity, indignity, disease, suffering, despair nervousness, war and death and with irreligion. The concept of home is brought out in relation to the mountains, with dry and cold weather, with peace and quiet, with love, dignity, health, happiness and the good life and with worship at least the consciousness of God. Each of these concepts is the result of a kind of poetic intuition and are strongly charged with emotional values. The images are built in around two opposite concepts that of home and the other of a place away from home. In A Farewell to Arms, the surface activity or the action is organised connotatively around two poles.

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