Analysis Of The Sun Also Rises

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In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway writes a novel centered around Jake Barnes and his post war lifestyle in Europe. Seán Hemingway wrote an introduction for the novel long after the original publication that Jake Barnes was written as a representation of Ernest Hemingway, Cohn was a representation of Harold Loeb, and Brett was a representation of Duff Twysden (1). Hemingway wrote this novel in order to showcase what it means to be lost in life, and part of Gertrude Stein’s lost generation. When reading the novel, it is clear to see that the characters, including Barnes, are lost in what they want from life. The audience primarily witnesses long nights of drinking and partying, but within those nights, often times the characters found themselves alone.

In The Sun Also Rises, during the transition of society from World War I to post-war, values transformed from the “old-fashioned” system of what was morally acceptable to a system that held the basic belief that anything of value, whether tangible or intangible, could be exchanged for something of equal value. This novel specifically pinpoints the transformation of the values of money, alcohol, sex and passion (aficion), friendships and relationships, and even one’s pain.

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a group of Americans and Brits travel to Pamplona to experience bull-fighting and festival surrounding it. Returning from World War I and struggling with injury-caused impotence, Jake Barnes longs for Brett’s love. However, she, already engaged to another man, dismisses his romantic attempts, more focused on the physical parts of relationships, which seem vital to a traditional relationship. Although it feels like conventional intimacy is largely absent in the novel, a close look at marriage and Brett and Jake’s unusually deep affection reinvents the definition of love.

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 and The Sun Also Rises was originally published in 1926. During this time period, post-war Europe was especially hesitant toward immigrant populations and the dislike of Jews was common around the world. Hemingway used real-life experiences and people as inspiration for characters, setting and plot in the novel and supposedly created the main character, Jake Barnes, as himself. In the Sun Also Rises, the anti-semitic attitudes expressed toward Robert Cohn reflect Hemingway’s personal anti-semitic beliefs, which were a product of his time. Many aspects of Robert Cohn’s character are stereotypical.

Ernest Hemmingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises is not considered to be a mystery. However, through his creative storytelling, Hemingway nimbly evokes an aura of uncertainty and mystique surrounding the relationship of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. Their attraction to each other is palpable, yet without the ability to consummate her sexual desires, and the tragic war wound that rendered him impotent, Brett obstinately pursues a variety of other meaningless relationships. There appears to be a recurring internal conflict with Brett throughout the course of the novel. Incapable of dealing with Jake’s injury, she meanders from relationship to relationship searching for that same unequivocal love she

For example, although both Mike and Frances repeatedly harass Cohn, he rarely attempts to defend himself: “Cohn looked up as I went in. His face was white. Why did he sit there? Why did he keep on taking it like that?” (51). Cohn’s susceptibility to harassment demonstrates a profound lack of masculinity, therefore exemplifying the extent of the damage Cohn acquired during World War I. Although Cohn momentarily exhibits some stereotypical masculinity when he beats up Jake, he subsequently deteriorates into a state of atrophy, crying and pleading for forgiveness: “Cohn was crying. There he was, face down on the bed, crying. He had on a white polo shirt, the kind he'd worn at Princeton. ‘I'm sorry, Jake. Please forgive me’” (194). Cohn’s pitiable response to the fight invalidates any sense of masculinity he may have established previously. By portraying Cohn, a member of the Lost Generation, as weak and and thus “unmasculine”, readers can discern the expanse of atrocities that the World War I veterans in the novel have

“That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner is a good example of a great emotional turmoil transferred directly to the readers through the words of a narrator who does not seem to grasp the severity of the turmoil. It is a story of an African American laundress who lives in the fear of her common-law husband Jesus who suspects her of carrying a white man's child in her womb and seems hell bent on killing her.

In the texts The Sun Also Rises and The Stranger, women and their femininity play a large role in the story, and share many similarities, but also many differences. In The Sun Also Rises, women are portrayed mainly as strong and powerful, having control over their male counterparts. The Stranger on the other hand has less representation of female characters, and the main female who is portrayed differs in many ways than those in The Sun Also Rises, but there are some similarities. The main female character in The Stranger, Marie Cardona, demonstrates control over Meursault at times, but there are a number of other instances when Meursault has power over her emotional and mental wellbeing. On the contrary, in Hemingway’s novel, female characters

The way a person reacts to and treats other people plays a great role in his character. Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley’s relationships make their characters more memorable. Jake’s actions give signs of a lack of self confidence. Because of Jake’s would he is handicapped from his old life. This disability probably makes him feel like a failure. Even though war caused his injury he would look back at it saying he had a choice to go to war, or he was not careful enough. Looking at himself this way also takes away from the rude responses that he gets from Brett. Since he believes that everything is his fault and he is the problem he would think that everything Brett says is okay. Even though Jake feels like a failure he still has self respect. He does not have his eye on many women other than Brett,

Robert Cohn’s interaction with Brett and the expatriates, bullfighting and gender conventions, leads to a moral destruction of his character and mimics the timeline of the Lost Generation and its encounter with traditions. The Sun Also Rises is introduced by the narrative of Cohn’s life; his history at Princeton includes anti-Semitism and a middleweight boxing championship title. He excelled at athletics to counteract the persecution he faced as a Jew, becoming a symbol of traditional masculinity. Robert’s use of masculinity as a shield relates to the way the Lost Generation aspires to fulfill gender roles to deflect from their position in society as outcasts. Cohn also wasn’t a soldier in the Great War, and so he emulates the lifestyle of

     In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is a lost man who wastes his life on drinking. Towards the beginning of the book Robert Cohn asks Jake, “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize that you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” Jake weakly answers, “Yes, every once in a while.” The book focuses on the dissolution of the post-war generation and how they cannot find their place in life. Jake is an example of a person who had the freedom to choose his place but chose poorly.

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, main character Mariam is forced into exile after a horrific set of experiences. After her mother’s suicide, she is removed from her home and is later arranged to marry a random man she never met before. Before her departure, Mariam lived in a “kolba,” a small hut on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. With no other place to go, she disapprovingly lives with her father for a short period of time before being shipped off to her new husband. Her encounter with exile is almost unbearable, yet she endures and grows into a hardworking and respectable woman. For Mariam, exile is both alienating and enriching; it illuminates how withstanding life’s challenges and learning to overcome them with love will ultimately be beneficial in the end, no matter what happens.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a realistic fiction novel that allows the reader to experience what it is like to live as disabled young man who is part of the lost generation. The novel opens in France, with Jake Barnes describing his friend Robert Cohn. Both men are Americans who have decided to come to France. Cohn has recently become unhappy with his current lifestyle, and attempts to persuade Jake to take a trip with him around the world. However, Jake refuses and gets rid of Cohn; later that night, Jake meets the love of his life, Brett. Although they are not together, it is made known that they love each other, and the only reason that they aren’t together is Jake’s war wound, which mutilated his genitals. The next day, Brett

"One generation passeth away, the passage from Ecclesiates began, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseh…"(Baker 122). A Biblical reference forms the title of a novel by Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s, portraying the lives of the American expatriates living in Paris. His own experience in Paris has provided him the background for the novel as a depiction of the 'lost generation'.