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Escape from Reality in A Farewell to arms   In Ernest Hemingways A Farewell to Arms, Fredric Henry gets involved with Catherine Barkley to drop the insanity of fight. Frederic loves Catherine. Catherine loves Frederic. The extreme situation of war and fate allowed both of them to be thrown together and fall in love. This love for one another was an escape into another world for Frederic. It provided him emotionally with a private place, where he could go to separate and evade the horrible realities of war occurring in and around him. nether any other normal circumstances this love probably would dumbfound never happened, but the pitcher had the curve ball in for Frederic from the commencement throw. He wanted him out.   From the beginning, Frederic and Catherines relationship started in a strange state. Frederic knew Catherine was a bantam cooky, but he stillness continued to pursue her. He did not even love her at first, but he still needed a way of escaping his pre sent situation, so he firm what the hell, and went after her. Plus, he really didnt think he had anything to loose. There were no lay on the line named from the start. He didnt really care if he lost anyway.   I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to jeopardize you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were. It was all right with me. (Hemingway, 30-31)   further this is where Frederic made his mistake. He kept his outgo from right and wrong regarding war and love. He had uninvolved himself from war and seemed to arrive at no place in it at all, mentally or physically (for example when he is in the hospital in Book Two). But when Aymo is killed by his own army, Frederic discovers the reality that he is not really separated from this event at all. He is very much part of this war whether he likes it or not.   At this point, he seems to go a little crazy himself and gets scared. He needs a way to escape directly and ends up separating himself again through love. Frederic had not been prepared for the stress and shove of the reality he had faultily deluded himself from.