Miss Walker She is the nurse on duty when Frederic arrives at the hospital in Milan Miss Gage She might be in love with Frederic. Though she is friendly and accepting of Henry and Rinaldi's visits to Catherine early in the novel, her hysterical outburst over Henry and Catherine's 'immoral' affair establishes her as an unhappy woman who is paranoid about her friend's safety and anxious about her own loneliness. She is a prental figure to Catherine and is very protective of her. Helen Ferguson A nurse's aide who works at the American hospital and Catherine's friend. He helps Frederic kill a soldier, and then is shot shortly thereafter. Aymo Frederic's friend and fellow ambulance driver during the retreat. The captain He eats with Frederic at the Red Cross Hospital, and who taunts the priest about religion and sexuality. Through Henry's conversations with him regarding the war, the novel challenges abstract ideals like glory, honor, and sacredness. Often the butt of the officers' jokes, he responds with good-natured understanding. The priest A kind, sweet, young man who provides spiritual guidance to the few soldiers interested in it.

When Henry returns to Gorizia, he tries to whip up a convivial atmosphere.

He sleeps with female prostitutes, but he expressed a desire to kiss Frederic several times. Rinaldi He is the surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital. She tells Frederic that her initial move to Italy was out of solidarity for her dead fiancé. She is exceptionally beautiful and possesses, perhaps, the most sensuously described hair in all of literature. Catherine Barkley An English nurse's aide who falls in love with Henry. His life lacks real passion until he meets the beautiful Catherine Barkley. He displays courage in battle, but his selfless motivations undermine all sense of glory and heroism, abstract terms for which he has little patience. Book One location Gorizia Book Two location Milan Book Three location Gorizia (back to the front) Book Four location Milan, Stresa, Switzerland Book five location Montreaux Frederic Henry He tells the story from the future.

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