![]() ![]() As their flirting deepens in the following days, Henry is able to coax kisses from her, and she asks him to say he loves her before acknowledging that this is only a game. On their first meeting, she tells him the sad story of her fiancé who was killed in the war, whose riding crop she still carries. When Henry returns from leave, his roommate Rinaldi introduces him to two English nurses, Catherine Barkley and Helen Ferguson, and although Rinaldi had been interested in Catherine, the immediate chemistry between her and Henry is obvious. Then the officers go to the officers' brothel for the night. He spends the evening with his fellow officers, who mock the regiment's priest for his celibacy. As the novel opens, Henry is about to take his winter leave. ![]() ![]() The narrator, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, is an American who has joined the Italian ambulance corps as a volunteer. It is World War I, in 1916, and the Italian army is trying to hold off the united forces of Austria and Germany. ![]()
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