The present studyhas aimed to investigate the reflection of gender roles in Ernest Hemingway‟s A Farewell to Armswith a view to explore the interaction between linguistic devices and underlying ideological orientations in the discourse of the novel from a critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective. Thus, in order to achieve the aims of the study and show how content and language are inextricably linked to each other, Fairclough‟s (2001) three dimensional model as well as Van Leeuwen‟s (2008) social actors‟ representation have been employed to identify the relevant instances and analyze the text accordingly.The researchers have attempted to analyze the text in terms of six gender-related dimensions: male/female proper names, male/female honorifics, male/female physical identification, male/female order of appearance, firstness in mixed gender dialogues, and male/female appraising lexicon. The findings of the study revealed that the dominant discourse in A Farewell to Arms (AFTA,henceforth)is mainly male-oriented in most of the gender-related aspects under investigation. In the male/female appraising lexicon, however, the text seems to be more female-oriented rather than male-oriented, since terms of address like „honey‟, „dear‟, and „sweetheart‟ as “in-group identity markers” (cf. Brown & Levinson, 1987) are frequently used by female characters as positive politenessstrategies stressing in-group membership.

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