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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms has been considered the greatest war and love story of all time. As a lost generation writer, Hemingway, like many others, wrote about World War I. The story takes place during the war where an American ambulance driver is in an Italian front. This American, Frederick Henry, later slowly falls in love with an English volunteer nurse, Catherine Barkley. In Hemingway's novels, the female characters he writes about are described as women who act in the service of men rather than in their own desires. The women that he describes are more like most women of that time, where it is considered a more traditional role. However, in A Farewell to Arms, Catherine seems to be a more liberal character who has escaped from the traditional roles of women. Catherine does not suppress her own needs to care for Frederick; neither does she mask her own individuality. Catherine is not affluence by the ambiance around her showing her independence and her strives for her dreams display her ambitious needs, however, she does present some submissive behavior. Catherine has her own independent personality with an identity of her own. She has more liberal views towards traditional matters. When she and Frede