Harrington 59 ) The subterfuges played by Henry as narrator upon the reader help to initiate the reader into Hemingway 's fatalistic , and yet still heroic , vision of personal courage and loyalty . henry fails to become a truly brave man until he deserts from the Italian army and rows his lover Catherine across a storm-swept lake to Switzerland . Ultimately , even this romantic image is shattered by tragedy it is as though Hemingway , by stripping the notion of the heroic of every...











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