Fiesta The Sun Also Risess Analysis

While Jake was getting ready for bed, he looked in the mirror and said, “Of all the ways to be wounded. I suppose it was funny”(pg.38). He was reminded once again that he was castrated. Right away he thought of Brett. When he says “of all the ways to be wounded’’, he is questioning his wound. He wonders why he was hurt in that area and not anywhere else. After that, he says “ I suppose it was funny.” He is saying that his injury is funny because he knows that he has to live with it for the rest of his life and there is no point of fussing over it. Even though he views his injury as something “funny”, it lowers his self-esteem especially when he's around women. Jake will always be impacted by his physical wound because it prevents him from being in a romantic relationship with Brett. After drunken Brett left Jake’s apartment, he thought to himself, “ this was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing”(pg.42). Jake demonstrates that he is in love with Brett and when he is reminded of his condition he “feels like hell again”. He loves her and he wants to be with here but it is not possible because

The value of monetary exchange extends to his relationships, particularly with Brett: “I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on” (Hemingway, 152). In this instance, Jake is referencing that his friendship with Brett, has given him the benefits of having as much of a romantic relationship as he can, which makes him feel he has cheated Brett of deserving payment. This explains why Jake supports Brett’s sexual promiscuity, as other men are capable of giving her what he cannot, sexually.

Throughout the Novel The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, he uses Jake to show that love is an unobtainable goal in the Lost Generation. This is showed countless times as Jake tries to make moves towards Brett. Brett continues to reject him throughout the Novel, as she does not want a relationship with Jake, Jake doesn't seem to want to accept the idea of that being the case. She seems to lead him on countless times although in the end it turns out the same, she just wants to be friends, and jake continues to hope for chance, despite the rejection he faces due to injuries he sustained in the war.

A majority of the characters in the novel experienced war first hand and suffered dire consequences. Jake, the protagonist, was sterilized during the war leaving him to not be able to have intimate relations with Brett. Brett, on the other hand, ignores social norms and has several romantic relationships. She can not seem to settle down and the reason for this is due to the war and all of the emotional baggage that went along with it. Several of the characters seem to forget who they truly were and this can explain their lively social scene. A majority of the book takes place in bars, restaurants, or at parties. The characters are metaphorical wandering around trying to remember who they were before the war. World War I took away several character’s livelihoods and left them to try to consolidate their lives. War has not changed its ways over the years. The movie American Sniper is a great example of this. The main character, Chris Kyle, is a skilled Navy SEAL and was the most lethal sniper in American history. Throughout the film, Kyle experiences the horrors of war and soon returns to the homeland. When he returns, he has a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and has a hard time adjusting to civilian life. Back when Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises, PTSD did not exist and people did not know the burden that veterans carry every single day. Whether it be Jake’s

A large portion of the friendships in the novel have no respect for other people's feelings. Case in point, Jake meets a bike group director, and the two have a drink together. They appreciate a friendly discussion and make arrangements to meet the following morning. Jake, on the other hand, sleeps through their meeting, having no respect for the fact that he will never see the man again. Jake and Cohn show another, still darker sort of false friendship. In spite of the fact that Cohn truly likes Jake, Jake must frequently hide his hostility toward Cohn, it is elevated when Jake finds out about the affair between Brett and Cohn At a certain point, he even claims to despise Cohn, “I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion” (Jake 22 ). This failure of authentic connections with other individuals is a part of the aimless wandering that portrays Jake. Jake and his companions wander socially and in addition geographically, “Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that” (Jake 11). This further shows how the characters feel even after they go to a different country. Nothing about them or their lives changes, it makes them even more lost and disconnected, because they don't know why they still fill the same even after a trip. This is just a way to escape yourself, but they can't. Hemingway unveils that in the setting of war it was easier to shape friendships with other individuals. After the war it demonstrates much more troublesome for these characters to do as

Hemingway uses the theme through Brett and Jake, these two characters show love between each other but know they can never find love with eachother. Jakes impotency affects his love with Brett and has a negative impact on him. Brett cannot love Jake as her mentality is that she needs sex to love, while she is also unapologietic. This takes a huge toll on Jake as although he does not show that he is hurt, it does hurt him inside. "You’re getting damned romantic." "No, bored." (3.35). This quote early on shows that a relationship between Brett and Jake is not possible. They cannot find love because they cannot have sex, even when they try to show a little romance with eachother, the other just shuts them down. "Couldn’t we live together, Brett? Couldn’t we just live together?" "I don’t think so. I’d just tromper you with everybody. You couldn’t stand it." (7. 7). This example shows of how they turn eachother down of a relationship. Jake tries to solve the no sex problem with

The clearest example is the impotency of the main character Jake Barnes. Jake explains to Georgette how he was hurt during the war in order to prevent her from becoming infatuated with him (Hemingway 22). The battle wound rendered Jake impotent, so he cannot be with his love, Brett Ashley. Throughout the novel, Jake witnesses Brett’s affairs with other men; his insecurity is enhanced. Robert Cohn, Jake’s Jewish friend, is a former boxer who did not experience World War I firsthand like the rest of Jake’s friends. Hemingway explains why Robert boxes: "He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton" (11). Robert practices boxing as a way to counteract his insecurity; he thinks he will gain respect and intimidate others. Instead, Robert is always found to be the center of jokes and criticism from his peer group; he nonchalantly brushes it off but is concerned about his identity.

The 1920s were times of loss for the United States. After seeing countless deaths of soldiers in a war many didn’t believe in, the years after World War I were times when people lost hope in classic principles such as bravery and courage. The “Lost Generation” were people who saw the horrors of the war throughout their life. Ernest Hemingway shows major themes of the “Lost Generation” through his stories after the war; he shows the pursuit of decadence in “Hills of White Elephants,” impotence through “Soldier’s Home,” and idealism through both stories (O’Connor).

The period between World War I and World War II was a very turbulent time in America. Ernest Hemingway most represented this period with his unrestrained lifestyle. This lifestyle brought him many successes, but it eventually destroyed him in the end. His stories are read in classrooms across America, but his semi-autobiographical writings are horrible role models for the students who read them. Hemingway’s lifestyle greatly influenced his writings in many ways.

Jake also at times seems to realize how bad his life is, but then never regrets it. He is in love with Brett Ashley, but she is always with other people, including Robert Cohn, which makes Jake jealous. This jealousy turns to anger when Jake gets into a fight with Robert and is then knocked out.

Jake and Robert Cohn and their relationship is another indicator of the theme of masculine insecurity. Hemingway plays up the tensions of competition and jealousy to demonstrate just how uncertain his male characters are. Cohn seems to sincerely be keen of Jake, and while Jake is normally nice toward him although he does not really seem to reciprocate Cohn’s warmth. Their relationship changes once Jake discovers Cohn’s fling with Brett. After this incident, he is more unfriendly toward him, and more critical of him. A conversation that happens later between Jake and Bill hints at Jake’s jealousy. Bill asks Jake if he was ever in love with Brett and Jake responds with “Off and on for a hell of a long time.” Bill apologizes for being inconsiderate, Jake them claims he no longer cares. Bill is skeptic of this though (128). The competition between Jake and Cohn relationship reaches its first peak, when he finds out about Cohn’s trip with Brett and their sexual affair and by Cohn’s belief that he knows Brett better than Jake does. His hatred for Cohn grows even more throughout the novel with Jake

It has been called one of Hemingway’s greatest literary works as it is the “quintessential novel of the Lost Generation.” Its strong language and subject matter portray a powerful image of the state of disenchantment felt in the 1920’s after the war. The interactions between the characters in this novel display a society living without convictions, affirming Gertrude Stein’s quotation at the beginning of the novel, “You are all a lost generation.” To paint this vivid picture of discontentment and disillusionment Hemingway tears away traditional ideas and values by stifling the appearance of God and religion. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is a poignant take on how the consequences of war can limit or diminish the presence of God and religious faith amongst those living in a post war society.

World War I, along with World War II and the rise of Marxist-Leninist states in Russia and China, is one of the defining moments of the 20th century. Parts of Europe lay in devastation and the United States found itself in an increasingly prominent place on the world stage. The United States’ decision to intervene in World War I meant that American soldiers would be fighting in foreign lands under brutal conditions. All aspects of society were rapidly changing as developments in technology and changing economic conditions redefined every part of everyday life. These developments along with World War I allow for the birth of Modernism. Modernism represents the uncertainty drudgery of contemporary life and the desire to achieve a new social order capable of overcoming the failures of the past. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald present readers with two different accounts of modern life rooted in the same context of “American life.”

Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms covers a romance that takes place during World War I. The novel itself came out shortly after the war, and was the first of Hemingway’s books to become a best-seller. Essentially, the novel contrasts the horrors of war with the romance of Henry and Catherine. Throughout the plot, Hemingway, a World War I veteran himself, uses the events of the book to make a statement about his thoughts on war. The core message of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is that war damages the soldiers who fight in it both physically and emotionally, which is primarily illustrated by the number of deaths caused directly and indirectly by the war, the actions Henry is forced to take over the course of the book, and Henry’s growing cynicism towards war.

The high-minded ideas of their elders were not to be trusted; the only reality was truth and that was harsh. Life was futile and often meaningless. According to "President Harding's 'back to normalcy' policy, subject seemed to its members(the lost generation) to be hopelessly provincial, materialistic, and emotionally barren"(“Lost Generation” 487). This demonstrates why this generation was in search of its own values. "The moral hypocrisy of Prohibition that so irritated Hemingway's generation produced exactly the reaction that Hemingway documents in his novel"(Reynolds 62).