

Just as the title explains, A Farewell to Arms deals primarily with the process by which the protagonist, Frederic Henry, disconnects himself from the war and leaves it behind. The first main theme of A Farewell to Arms is the devastation that war brings. The two main themes in A Farewell to Arms are the gruesome reality of war and the relationship between love and pain. While soldiers of the war fought for their country, they searched for love to escape total chaos and destruction.

A major source of the novel's success is how its themes tied into real life experiences during the First World War. Written in 1929 by Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms has always been considered a classic piece of literature.
