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...elimination of moral codes, however, didnot prevent Hemingway from the impossible attemptto assert value, through language and throughaction. As Frederick Henry discovers in A Farewellto Arms, it is precisely because "You could not goback" that you were forced to rebuild. In AFarewell to Arms. Henry discovers that "If you didnot go forward what happened?" The authentictragedy in Hemingway is the hopelessness of thehuman situation: "The world breaks everyone. Butthose that will not break it kills. It kills thevery good and the very gentle and the very braveimpartially." But it is Hemingway's discovery,momentous in his time and in ours...
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