Henry's Personal Code in A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway is a story of love, war and one man's quest to find his own personal code to create a separate peace. Fredrick Henry is an American who serves as a lieutenant in the Italian army for a group of ambulance drivers. Hemingway portrays Frederick as a lost man searching for order and value in his life. Catherine Barkley is an English volunteer nurse serving in Italy. She is considered very experienced when it comes to love and loss as she has already had to deal with the death of a loved one when her fiancé was killed at the start of the war. Their love story will have to survive the obstacles of World War. The backdrop of war-torn Italy adds to the tragedy of the love story. War affects the emotions and values ​​of each character. Catherine and Frederick's love must survive long separations, life-threatening war situations, and uncertainty about each other's whereabouts or condition. This novel is a beautiful love story of two people who need each other in a time of upheaval. At the beginning of the novel, Frederick is given a holiday to leave the war for a period of time to relax. He befriends a priest because he admires the fact that the priest lives his life according to a set of values ​​that give him an orderly lifestyle. The priest tells him to go to Abruzzo, there in the mountains he will be able to relax and forget the worries of the war. But Fredrick is stubborn and listens to his friends and decides to go to Naples, there he drinks and travels from one house of prostitution to another and yet he is unhappy because his life is very unstable. This vacation was his free ticket out of the war, but Fredrick doesn't realize or understand how bad this war is. He decides to return out of pride and patriotism. A close friend of Fredrick, Rinaldi is also a lieutenant in the army. Together they share stories and interests. Rinaldi is a strong man, someone who understands what war means. Despite numerous attempts at teaching Fredrick, he still doesn't understand. Rinaldi constantly calls Fredrick “baby,” which is an accurate description of him. He is still a child and is unaware of the true meaning of war, love and life.