Ernest Hemingway’s Used of Symbolism is Expression of Inner World in ‘A Farewell to Arms’

Author(s): Dr. Mohammad Rizwan Abdul Majid Sheikh

Abstract:

Hemingway is an American novelist famous for his wise use of symbolism in his novels. His novel ‘A Farewell to Arms’ has a wide range of symbols in it. it mostly exhibits symbols related to nature like rain, mountains, sun etc. This masterpiece is Hemingway’s magnum opus and a delight to read in true sense. Symbolism is a literary device wherein a system of symbols is used as a representation or expression of something underlying that which is being used as a symbol. Hemingway had a theory that prose fiction is like an ice-berg of which only one-eight is visible above the surface of the water. Therefore, it is peculiar to his styles that he makes aware of the existence of something by a method of commutation. Hemingway’s works therefore abound in symbols and in images that were symbols of an inner world. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway has portrayed certain things as major symbols, for example the mountains, the plains, the seasons and the rain. The three major and chief symbols in the novel, A Farewell to Arms are- Rain, The Mountains and The Plains. The Mountains symbolize Home and Plain symbolize lack of shelter, low security, danger, destruction, obscenity, loss of faith in God.

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