Ernest Hemingway in Turkey: From the Quai at Smyrna to A Farewell to Arms

This paper argues that Hemingway's coverage of the Greco-Turkish War in 1922 provided themes which appear in his writing throughout the 1920s-30s. Specifically, three themes introduced in the 1925 version of In Our Time are repeated and clarified in A Farewell to Arms and then coalesce in "On the Quai at Smyrna," becoming a site where Hemingway could explore the implications of the detachment that is created by the trauma of war.