Autumn, when "the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy," is the setting for a meeting between the protagonist and a friend who angrily suspects he has syphilis. Sex as
Autumn, when "the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy," is the setting for a meeting between the protagonist and a friend who angrily suspects he has syphilis. Sex as a theme is revisited when a group of characters discusses opera singers and then heads to a brothel in Gorizia, and when the protagonist tells his lover that he has gonorrhea. After his leg heals, a mutinous retreat at Caporetto drives the protagonist to desert the army and escape to Switzerland with his pregnant lover, who dies giving birth to a stillborn child. FTP, name this novel about the love between Frederic Henry and the nurse Catherine Barkley in Italy during World War I, a work by Ernest Hemingway.
Autumn, when "the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy," is the setting for a meeting between the protagonist and a friend who angrily suspects he has syphilis.
A {Farewell to Arms}