Todd, B. E.  "Farewell and Return." In Monteiro, George, ed.  Critical Essays
        on Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.  New York: G.K. Hall & Co.,
        1994:88.

        Todd describes a pair of pictures popular in the era of the soldier going off to war and of the soldier returning home.  He suggests that A Farewell to Arms go in between these two as counter-point to "the sickly poison of glory and glamour" of war.

        Todd notes that the grim realities of birth surpass those of war, as presented in the novel.

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