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A Farewell to Arms depicts man at war and irrevocably linked with him is man in love. Death and life grapple with each other and the chances of man’s resurrection out of death. In the introduction to Man at War, Hemingway says that one can learn a lot about the human heart and the human in war from the book. It won’t be an exaggeration to say the same thing about A Farewell to Arms. The condition of the human heart and mind corresponds to two inextricable stands the theme of love and war, in structure of novel. Actually these are the two aspects of the human condition as visible in the modern times. Hemingway uses war as a metaphor for the general condition of man’s existence in the 20th century. As many critics have suggested war has now become a deep and permanent crisis in the public affairs of all nations.