A Farewell To Arms And Rinaldi Relationship
Love and War Love is an unexplainable relationship between a man and a woman. The relationship can start one way and then transform into something completely different without warning. Each character in this novel has a different understanding of love. In A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, the relationship between Catherine Barkley and Frederick Henry closely parallels Rinaldi and the priest 's different views of love.
The character Rinaldi does not take love seriously; he is always in and out of love and always has many short-term flings. For example, Rinaldi is always looking for a new girl conquer, "That 's nothing. Here now we have beautiful girls. New girls never been to the front before"� (Hemingway 12.) Rinaldi looks at girls …show more content…
For example, the soldiers try to make fun of the priest because he does not take advantage of girls like they do, "He should have fine girls. I will give you the addresses of places in Naples. Beautiful young girls""accompanied by their mothers. Ha! Ha! Ha!"� (Hemingway 8.) The priest is the butt of all the jokes because he is unlike the other men. He does not always have to be involved in the physical act of love like the others do. Furthermore, he does not participate in the immoral actions that the soldiers do, "We go whorehouse before it shuts"� (Hemingway 9.) The men have a constant desire for physical gratification, it is like a emptiness they always have to fill. The priest 's relationship with God keeps him continuously satisfied. In addition, God provides the priest with an endless fulfillment of all his spiritual needs, "People soon become thirsty again after drinking this water. But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life"� (John 4:13-14) The physical needs the men have are short term and will not last. The spiritual needs the priest has, the ones that are most important, are met by God. The soldier 's relationships leave them empty and wanting more, while the priests relationship with God keeps him full with
The character Rinaldi does not take love seriously; he is always in and out of love and always has many short-term flings. For example, Rinaldi is always looking for a new girl conquer, "That 's nothing. Here now we have beautiful girls. New girls never been to the front before"� (Hemingway 12.) Rinaldi looks at girls …show more content…
For example, the soldiers try to make fun of the priest because he does not take advantage of girls like they do, "He should have fine girls. I will give you the addresses of places in Naples. Beautiful young girls""accompanied by their mothers. Ha! Ha! Ha!"� (Hemingway 8.) The priest is the butt of all the jokes because he is unlike the other men. He does not always have to be involved in the physical act of love like the others do. Furthermore, he does not participate in the immoral actions that the soldiers do, "We go whorehouse before it shuts"� (Hemingway 9.) The men have a constant desire for physical gratification, it is like a emptiness they always have to fill. The priest 's relationship with God keeps him continuously satisfied. In addition, God provides the priest with an endless fulfillment of all his spiritual needs, "People soon become thirsty again after drinking this water. But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life"� (John 4:13-14) The physical needs the men have are short term and will not last. The spiritual needs the priest has, the ones that are most important, are met by God. The soldier 's relationships leave them empty and wanting more, while the priests relationship with God keeps him full with