Novel begins with a description of an Italian landscape and troops that regularly pass while fighting is taking place in the mountain regions. It continues through landscape and settles in the mess tent where Frederic Henry, the narrator and protagonist, is eating and drinking wine with other Italian officers and talking to the priest. Frederic Henry is an American expatriate who has become a lieutenant in the medical corps of the Italian army. His roommate, …showed first 75 words of 1226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1226 total…of gas to help ease her pain. After few hours, the doctor recommends a Caesarean section. The doctor discovers that the baby is dead at birth and informs Frederic about baby and Catherine’s internal bleeding. Frederic goes to her to be with her as she dies. Everything is over and Frederic is saying his final goodbyes to the loved dead body. The novel ends with him walking back to the hotel in the rain.