How Does Hemingway Use Imagery To Describe Autumn

1. Hemingway uses visual imagery to describe the autumn. "In the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain. The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with autumn." Hemingway focuses on rain and how sets an image of death and despair which implies that the rain serves as a symbol of death; making a connection between rain and the deaths in the war. Rain preceded an outbreak of fatal illness, the cholera that kills seven thousand that fall.
2. The image that Hemingway invokes when describing the troops in their capes is that they look as if they were six months pregnant with all the equipment. The effect of this image on the reader is that it gives an insight as to how the war is supposed to bring to life better opportunities in the near future while simultaneously it is bringing death and destruction unto the soldiers.
3. These phrases create a sarcastic and gentle tone and it shows that the narrator may be tired of the war and feels hopelessly dragged into it and can’t wait for it to end. Other phrases in this paragraph that work in a similar way are “the town was very nice” and “our house was very fine”, suggesting that the town was
I think Hemingway suggests by the contrast of light and dark in this chapter that something tremendously horrible is going to happen at the attack site. The darkness will fall upon the troops of men, most likely death and many wounded and that something will also happen to Frederik. Hemingway describes the Saint Anthony that Catherine gave him as “in a little white metal capsule”, suggesting that although they are both not religious, the fact that it was given to him by Catherine and although he lost it, it represents that Catherine will be his hope in this war and although he is not the one fighting, she will be the only light at the end of the tunnel that is keeping him emotionally strong and