Walking in the Rain: Non-Teleological Grief in A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms portrays a non-teleological experience of grief that resists traditional narrative structures culminating in insight, acceptance, or closure. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Tabussum Sumaiya; Jannat Rayhan Aksa; Farzana Akter

doi:10.1080/0895769x.2026.2726871

August 29, 2026ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews

Walking in the Rain: Non-Teleological Grief in A Farewell to Arms

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To investigate how Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms diverges from conventional narrative models that depict grief as leading toward insight, acceptance, or closure.
Textual and narrative analysis of Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms.
Thematic evaluation of bereavement, narrative trajectory, and emotional resolution in modern war literature.
The narrative resists traditional teleological frameworks of mourning by rejecting emotional culmination, philosophical growth, or clear closure after profound loss.
Hemingway portrays grief as an ongoing, non-directional state of disorientation rather than a process of healing or emotional synthesis.

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Literary analysis reveals non-teleological representations of grief in A Farewell to Arms, indicating resistance to conventional teleological closure.

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Narratives of grief often assume a teleological structure in which loss culminates in insight, acceptance, or closure. Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms resists this pattern. While Hemingway cr...

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