Sun Also Rises Eudaemonism

For many years, women have been oppressed and treated as property. The opinion of a woman did not matter, being obedient to her husband was all that is required. Even if they were obedient to their husbands, women were property and only for the pleaser and likening to the husband. Mariam did all the her husband required of her, however there was one thing should could not. Which was give her husband, Rasheed, a son or any child. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini reveals the social issue of physical abuse and mental abuse by his use of imagery, diction, and dialogue.

In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, we are taken back to the 1920’s, accompanied by the “Lost Generation.” During this time, prohibition was occurring in America. Hemingway uses alcohol as an obstacle that causes distresses between the main character, Jake and his life. Along with alcohol, promiscuity is prevalent throughout the novel. The heroine of the novel, Brett, displays the theme of promiscuity throughout the novel. She uses her sheer beauty and charming personality to lure men into her lonely life. The themes of alcohol and promiscuity intertwine with the Lost Generation in this classic love saga.

1. They must leave because Jake received a letter from Mike stating that they would arrive on Wednesday. He received the letter on a Wednesday and so they took off on the afternoon bus.

In “A Thousand Splendid Suns” Mariam experiences loss, rejection, depression, and helplessness throughout her entire life. I can relate to her life in some aspects. Mariam experienced several deaths and whenever death is brought up it twists my stomach. Everyone is like a gallon of milk- we all have an expiration date that cannot be changed. I have experienced death and loss and it was a major event in my life. Mariam and I experienced similar emotions that both assisted in shaping who we are.

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.

All of the characters were dealing with this whole issue of self.  Cohn, however, dealt with his problems in a different way.  "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 felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton."  Cohn was willing to work and suffer physically to try to gain back some of what he wanted-acceptance and love.  The others tried to simply escape their problems in sex, alcohol, work, or fishing.  This is a similarity between Cohn and Romero.  Although boxing is not as threatening as fighting bulls, the work and torment and sweat involved show the hope that they have that the end result is worth the work and pain.  Cohn believed that true love existed, but he had never known it.  "For four years his horizon had been absolutely limited to his wife.  For three years, or almost three years, he had never seen beyond Frances.  I am sure he had never been in love in his life."  "She [Frances] was very forceful, and Cohn never had a chance of not being taken in hand.  Also he was sure that he loved her."

“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 many works of literature past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present actions, attitudes, or values of a character. In many books, the characters with the most unfavorable backgrounds surface their pains and deal with the emotional burdens in detrimental ways. A reader can note that certain characters conform to what causes them grief in what seems like a positive way, but eventually becomes the bane of their existence. In the novel, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway, many characters had to succumb to their past which caused them strife in the long run. Hemmingway shines light as to why certain characters act in certain ways.

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

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

Within Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, he includes many characters that are very similar to his life. The narrator of The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes shares many parallels to Hemingway’s life. Like Hemingway, Barnes participated in World War 1 and was grievously injured while serving on the Italian front. As he narrates he intentionally talks around what happened, but it can be inferred that he lost something that makes him a man. While hospitalized he meets a field nurse, who he then fell in love with. That nurse, Lady Brett Ashely, is a strong and independent woman that has a way with men. “In the war her lover died of dysentery. Since then she been drifting with the current from one man to another” (Egri 112). She is the type

     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.

Over the course of the summer I had been debating about which book to read. The Great Gatsby jumped out at me first, but the library had given its last copy out the week before. I scoured through the library computer system to see which books on the list were available and I stumbled across The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Since it was one of the only books available on a short time, not too long, and had a pretty cover, I decided it was the right choice without knowing what it was about.

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.

"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'.