The Hero of the Code Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway is a renowned twentieth-century American author who centers his novels on personal experiences and affections. He is one of the authors called "The Lost Generation". He could not cope with post-war America, and therefore introduced in writing a new type of character called "code hero". Hemingway is known for centering his novels on codex heroes who struggle with the combination of their tragic flaws and their surroundings. The traits of a typical Hemingway Code hero are a love of good times, stimulating environments, and strict moral rules, including honesty. The hero of the code always displays some form of physical injury which serves as a tragic flaw and weakness in his character. In this novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway realizes Frederick Henry's evolution into a code hero in realistic ways. . Frederick Henry achieved the characteristics of the codex hero by the end of the novel with Catherine's help. All the characteristics seem to follow the path of a virile person who continually strives to live his life to the fullest. Throughout this novel, Frederick Henry's behavior matures into the coded hero that Hemingway desires to be through Henry's discovery of love, courage, and death. At the beginning of the novel, Frederick Henry was fond of overly sensual pleasures and could not control himself until he had spent a lot of time with Catherine and learned to discipline himself. Henry "drank a lot of wine" and wandered from brothel to brothel near the beginning of the novel. He had no control over himself, nor could he hold down the alcohol or contain himself from a… paper medium… on the ride home, but he refuses. He goes to his house alone and works things out about what death really is. He asked God to save his greatest love after taking his son and receives no response. He concludes that death is the end and when it takes you, there is nowhere to go. Henry never becomes a code hero until the end, when he accepts death as the end of existence. The hero of Hemingway's code, Frederick Henry, evolves into a man the reader can identify with and understand. Henry unknowingly becomes a code hero and a better person with Catherine's help. Henry eventually becomes a code hero with the help of many accidents. In the last pages, the reader realizes that he has become a hero of the code because he reacted to the serious situation he had in his hands with calm and order as Catherine did..