'A farewell to Arms' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. It was first published in 1929.
It is a story of an American ambulance driver who falls for a beautiful English nurse. It is a first-person account of the American, Frederic Henry, serving as lieutenant.
Hemingway used his own personal experience during his time serving in the Italian campaign as the base of the novel, however, there were also many fictional elements which makes the novel semi-autobiographical.
The dwarves are so worried that the elves will steal their treasure that they lie to the elves about their journey through Mirkwood. This develops the theme that blind greed will hurt you.
Because the dwarves are greedy so they lie because they want the treasure
A stage in a child's psychosexual development (The phallic stage) that cause feelings of desire for opposite sex parent and feelings of competition for same sex parent.
