xcitement of battle and happened to be in a certain place at a certain time.
With Catherine he also fails to make a conscious choice. Soon after they had met, Frederick tried to kiss her, but she slapped him. When she finally acquiesced she says, "Oh, darling you will be good to me, won't you?" (Hemingway 27). His reaction is, "What the hell, I thought" (Hemingway 27). He considers this relationship a game. He says, "I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards . . ." (Hemingway 30).
Henry, with his failure to take control of his own fate by making concrete choices, is in the infancy of his development. The reader follows him from here as he faces his own
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