The Silver Linings Playbook Chapter 4

The Worst Ending Imaginable learned that Nikki does a big unit on Hemingway every year, I consume for one of Hemingways better novels. One with a love story if possible, because I really need to study love so I substructure be a better husband when Nikki comes back, I tell mamma.When Mom returns from the library, she says that the librarian claims A Farewell to Arms is Hemingways best love story. So I eagerly crack open the book and drop have myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.As I read, I look for quotable lines so I can drop knowledge the next m Nikki and I are give away with her literary friends so I can say to that glasses-wearing Phillip, Would an illiterate cuckoo know this line? And then I go out drop any(prenominal) Hemingway, real suave.But the novel is nothing but a trick.The building block time, you root for the narrator to survive the war and then for him to have a nice life with Catherine Barkley. He does survive all sorts of dangers eve n out getting blown up and finally escapes to Switzerland with the pregnant Catherine, whom he loves so much. They perish in the mountains for a time, in love and living a not bad(predicate) life.Hemingway should have ended there, because that was the silver lining these people deserved after(prenominal) struggling to survive the gloomy war.But no.Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their chela is quietenborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever go through and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television.I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine wherefore anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. why not just tell high school students that their struggle to mitigate themselves is all for nothing?I have to admit that for the first time sin ce apart time began, I am mad at Nikki for teaching method such pessimism in her classroom. I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and imperil to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No wonder he put a gun to his head, uniform it says in the introductory essay.