Lost behind the words

王文杰

    Although Hemingway recalled in the ' unfixed holy day ', he was against Gertrude. Stein called them ' these young people who served in the war ' as ' the Lost Generation ' and said ' let her say what the Lost Generation that set of all those dirty random labels are damned ', but until his ' farewell, weapons ' came out in 1929, the label of the ' Lost Generation ' firmly stuck to him and could not be thrown away. 'Farewell to Arms ' is the most worth reading of the two parts of Henry and Catherine 's party in Milan and Switzerland. The most exciting part is their conversations about love, which are full of wit and interest between the two men and women in love.
     The part involving the war is filled with a strong sense of confusion and pessimism. Hemingway intends to write the protagonist Henry as a person tired of thinking. The success or failure of both sides of the war is irrelevant to him. The war is meaningful and meaningless. For him and those around him, the ongoing war has ended in their hearts, as if daily life plus routine. This gloomy nihilistic and confused psychology is not presented through positive portrayal and direct description, but as Hemingway himself said, ' use shaping instead of description, ' which is mainly reflected in the shaping of Henry.His attitude towards war is ambiguous, his speech is scarce, his actions are step by step, and he avoids thinking. It is not like a living man on the front line of war. Hemingway uses this to reveal and convey his ideological tendency and value judgment. But this makes the characters somewhat untrustworthy, some pretentious colors.
    Another translated name of the novel " Battlefield Spring Dream " said the meaning of the story. In such a confused and nihilistic war mentality, love has become the only belief and spiritual support. The focus of the novel is actually not war but love. The vanity of war is only used to contrast the preciousness and beauty of love. Unfortunately, even if such a life-saving straw like love, the author also arranged an unfortunate ending, rain implies the occurrence of tragedy, like a spring dream will wake up. The hasty and cold ending of the novel also exposes Hemingway 's pessimism about life. From this novel and ' The Sun Also Rises ', it can be seen that Hemingway is not an outright tough guy. He is weak at night. His strength has a bottom line that can be broken. He is afraid of thinking and distrusts the meaning of thought to people, so he is destined to be ' lost '.