摘要

众所周知，《永别了，武器》是海明威的一部有关战争的重要作品。在过去，人们一直对它抱有浓厚的兴趣，特别是其中的男主人公亨利，大多数人认为亨利是一位真正的英雄。然而，对于其中的女主人公凯瑟琳，一直都是贬多于褒。像对待海明威其他作品中的多数女性一样，评论界普遍认为凯瑟琳不过是男主人公亨利的陪衬，是个没有个性，没有独立见解，只知顺从，奉献的无私女性。但这绝对不是完整的凯瑟琳，真正的凯瑟琳是一个悲剧与勇敢并存的新女性。她身上所体现的“硬汉精神”和“生存准则”才是她真正的性格所在。在我看来，一方面，凯瑟琳是当时战争下的牺牲品，她的一生似乎都充满悲剧。但是，另一方面，她又是一个不折不扣的准则英雄,正是由于她的勇敢，才促进了亨利的成长。

关键词：海明威；女性形象；勇敢；悲剧；准则英雄

Abstract

    As we all know, A Farewell to Arms is one of the Hemingway’s famous novel about war. Many people have studied especially the hero of the novel. Most of them think that Henry is a real hero, while for Barkly Catherine, they show opposite views and think she is a woman with no personality and independent view, just knowing how to obey selflessly. In fact, this is not the whole Catherine. The real Catherine is a woman with both tragic and brave qualities. The “dauntless spirit” and “survival principle” are the important aspects of her character. On the one hand, Catherine, as a female figure, is a victim of her time. On the other hand, more importantly, she is a “code hero” in every sense. It is her courage that promotes Henry to grow.

Key words: Hemingway; female image; braveness; tragedy; code hero

1 Introduction
1.1 A brief introduction of Hemingway and his novel

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Most of his work was produced between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published after his death.