This bachelor paper explores the survival of civilians who appear in Hemingway’s book
A Farewell to Arms. It describes important civilian protagonists and their involvement
in the war during which the plot of the book takes place. The main focus in on how
these characters perceive, fight for, and comment on the survival and whether they
actually survive. The theoretical part focuses mainly on the author, the period of writing
the novel and the influence on its composition. Furthermore, it defines historical and
cultural details and gives a summary of the plot and characters. In the analytical part,
both fictional and non-fictional civilian life is examined in regard to its presence in
Hemingway’s major war novels. Finally, individual aspects related to surviving the war
in A Farewell to Arms are analyzed.
