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Book 1, Chapter 1
Before we embark on this tragic tale of love and war, we’d like to discuss a few issues that might be confusing. A Farewell to Arms is narrated in the first person and in the past tense. The narrative is the protagonist's memory of the events he’s narrating. We don’t get any kind of name for him until Chapter Five, and we don’t get his first and last name until Chapter Thirteen. Also, although the novel is written in the past tense, we talk about it here in the present tense, or the "historical present," because that’s the standard way of talking about literature. So now, here’s the story:
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