Part one of term paper
The views of Catherine Barkley and Brett Ashley in their perspective classes During the early 1900’s, after the death of Queen Victoria, the European world went through a great change under the influence of the Free Women’s movement and WWI. It was a time of great confusion, women were faced with choices unheard of before, and hav ...

Part two of term paper
... Barkley, A Farewell to Arms, presented a more conservative Victorian way of life, akin to a male dominant world. These, Hemingway’s most famous female characters, are reflective in their contrast to the decaying Victorian society of the 1800’s and the feminist movement of the early 1900’s. Hemmingway’s attempt to create the perfect wife through Catherine, may have in fact been too successful, as he leaves the reader questioning whether she “is too idealistic, too sel ...