One of Hemingway's more constant themes is a disgust and
even contempt for war and the way that it appeared to become a constant fixture of life,
both in Europe and elsewhere in the world. In the book he tries to bring out the
pointless and stupid aspects of this particular war while also demonstrating the
individual lives of people caught within it and the effects the war has on them
personally.
In order to accomplish this, Hemingway presents
the war in a more realistic fashion than many earlier and even contemporary authors.
The horror and tragedy of it are presented to the reader in the gruesome description of
battle, of the men's wounds and of the honest descriptions of men in their most depraved
and most noble states, both of which are brought to the forefront during
war.
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