Henry A Dynamic Character

In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the main character Frederic Henry is an ambulance driver during the war in Italy. He is the protagonist and is considered a flat character in one way, but also a dynamic character.

Frederic Henry has no control with his temptations towards women, drinks too much and has carelessness all around him. Being with women and drinking alcohol allows him get away and temporarily eliminate the war from his mind. The priest is one of the people who cares for him and wants him to be on the right path. He (the Priest) tells Henry “I would like you to see Abruzzi and visit my family at Capracotta" (Hemingway 8), to show Henry the real world “clear and dry”(8). However, Henry stays to wh2 1at he knows and takes

But, since she’s dead, he thinks of how he could have done better or improved how he acted with her. “"You don’t have to pretend you love me. […] let’s not lie when we don’t have to" (46). Catherine knows that Frederic did not love her, but knew that he was attempting to make her happy. "I had treated Catherine very lightly" (89). When Catherine died, Henry realized how much he actually loved her. That what death did to him. He felt no remorse for his son's death, and not very much for Catherine's death, just that he should have loved her more. Frederic Henry is very resentful of the baby. He believes that Catherine would still be alive if the baby wasn't inside her, but he showed resentment even before Catherine dies.

Frederic feels like he is at fault with the death of Catherine and his son, as well as the soldiers from the war. “Some ants got out, their bodies burnt and flattened, and went off not knowing where they were going. But most of them went toward the fire and […] finally fell off into the fire. I remember thinking at the time that it was the end of the world and a splendid chance to be the messiah and lift the log off the fire and throw it out where the ants could get off …. But I did not do anything but throw a tin cup of water on the log, so that I would have the cup empty to put whiskey in