Another turning point in the narrative: Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley are sent to the same hospital. But first Hemingway reminds us of the gravity of the general situation, as Henry speaks of patients dying in his ward and of those buried in the garden outside.
Stylistically, the author combines direct and indirect discourse with stream-of-consciousness in the long paragraphs describing the drunken visit by Rinaldi and the major. That is, the author quotes directly from their conversation rather than summarizing, but he disposes with the convention of setting off individual speeches via quotation marks and paragraphs. It all flows together in an imitation of an intoxicated person's experience of the conversation.
