Before World War I, the role of women was generally accepted to be that of a homemaker. Women cooked, women cleaned, women cared for children, and women were sexual partners. Women were idealized to the point where when men searched for a partner, they looked for beauty rather than intelligence and skill. With the advent of World War I, the role of women in society began to change. On the home front, women began to take on jobs as housekeepers, as well as jobs in factories and at railroad companies, which at the time were considered “masculine” occupations. Other women went out into the war by joining organizations such as the Red Cross as nurses. Nevertheless, the role of the female still ultimately was geared toward serving males in the end. While World War I did have some influence on the feminine role, it ultimately preserved the idealization of women, as demonstrated by literature, scholarly analysis, and historical facts. In literature, particularly in Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms, we can observe that while the role of the female changes, Hemingway still idealizes the woman. In the novel, Frederic leaves the United States to be an ambulance driver in Italy. He meets a woman from England named Catherine, who is helping the war effort as a Red Cross nurse. Hemingway demonstrates the shift of the feminine role by presenting Catherine as a nurse. However, when she is around Frederic, it seems as if Catherine takes on the pre-war female stereotype of a motherly, sex-related, idealized figure. For example, when Frederic finds out that he got Catherine pregnant, Catherine immediately starts apologizing and telling him, “I’ll try and not make trouble for you. I know I’ve made trouble now” (Hemingway 138). Catherine seems inferior to Frederic, and acts as if she has caused “trouble” to him by getting pregnant. She practically worships Frederic and has a mission of serving him to make him happy. H