The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway

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.

Contrary to popular belief and everything anyone thought they knew about our planet, no one really knows how the giant mass of rock beneath our feet came to be. There have been multiple “Gods” thought to have built the earth with their bare hands alone, which is correct to a degree,

Ernest Hemingway is an American twentieth century novelist who served in World War I. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army. He wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises in Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway argues that the Lost Generation suffered immensely after World War I because of severe problems with masculinity, alcohol, and love.

In the sun also rises Hemingway’s character development of Jake Barnes helps us understand the theme of this book. The way Hemingway does this is through the diction and character development of Jake. Jakes character development is built through a character foil with Robert Cohn, which emphasizes jakes character. Then this character development helps bring the reader to the theme of identity.

In the classic novel The Sun Also Rises, author Earnest Hemmingway carefully follows the lives of several Americans, impacted by times of World War I. The cohort of people highlighted in this time period is often referred to as the "Lost Generation." The war was commonly known as the Great War, and shaped the way people lived in that particular time period. Known for its fast times and lack of morals, the war set a new standards for the people of its time, and changed many people's beliefs in traditional values of love, morals, and religion. Throughout the novel, the results of the war affected the characters in every aspect of their lives.

Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises tells the story of a young World War I veteran, Jake Barnes, who struggles to develop relationships or direction in his life resulting from his impotency and excessive alcoholism. Jake and his friends acquiesce to the will of Brett Ashley, even though none of them can hold a lasting relationship with her. Hemingway uses the expression or lack of masculinity as a tool to convey the devastating effects of the atrocities of World War I upon the young men living as part of the Lost Generation.

While Faulkner writes with complex, disorganized sentences, and Hemingway writes more simply, both unique author’s distinctive styles capture the feeling of discontentment in their fictional characters, such as Jake, in The Sun Also Rises, and Darl in, As I Lay Dying, by supplying insight on their daily life and the environment surrounding them. While Jake’s discontentment is caused by a war wound, and Darl’s sadness is created by his mother’s death, Jake tries to conceal his emotions while Darl chooses to confront his issues directly. In, The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is described as being physically damaged because of a war wound that impaired him during WWI. This is the cause for Jake’s discontentment.

Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, tells the tale of the protagonist and narrator, Jake Barnes as he and his companions wander aimlessly through life. Life in the 1920s embodied hypermasculinity and femininity. Upon the ending of World War I the lost generation struggled with many concepts such as aimlessness of the life, male insecurity, and destructiveness of sex. A veteran who is impotent after a war injury and lacks machismo, consequently, Barnes is not the manliest character. On the other hand, his “friend” Lady Brett Ashley is a captivatingly beautiful and charismatic woman who at times seems more masculine than feminine. Unlike Jake she has a sexual prowess that affects everyone around them. Jake’s impotence and emasculation combined

At first glance, Ernest Hemingway’s The  Sun Also Rises is an over-dramatized love story of bohemian characters, but with further analysis, the book provides a crucial insight into the effects of World War I on the generation who participated in it. Hemingway’s novel follows a group of expatriates as they travel Europe and experience the post war age of the early 1900’s. The protagonist is Jake Barnes, an American war veteran who lives in Paris and is working as a journalist. Jake was injured during the War and has remained impotent ever since. His love interest, Lady Brett Ashley, is an alcoholic englishwoman with severe promiscuity, which is representative of women and the sexual freedom that emerged during the Progressive Era. Jake and Brett

There is a feel of harassment, competition, rivalry, and arguments caused by the men’s challenged masculinity. Jake exemplifies insecurity in the novel as well as Brett. Hemingway models “The Sun Also Rises” after his own insecurities, concepts of masculinity, and life events. When Hemingway turned eighteen he attempted to enlist in the army, however, he was denied at first because of his poor eyesight and became an ambulance

The pivotal character of Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises is Jake Barnes. He is a man of complex personality--compelling, powerful, restrained, bitter, pathetic, extraordinarily ordinary yet totally human. His character swings from one end of the psychological spectrum to the other end. He has complex personality, a World War I veteran turned writer, living in Paris. To the world, he is the epitome of self-control but breaks down easily when alone, plagued by self-doubt and fears of inadequacy. He is at home in the company of friends in the society where he belongs, but he sees himself as someone from the outside looking in. He is not alone, yet he is lonely. He strikes people as confident, ambitious, careful, practical,

Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises has his male characters struggling with what it means to be a man in the post-war world. With this struggle one the major themes in the novel emits, masculine identity. Many of these “Lost Generation” men returned from that war in dissatisfaction with their life, the main characters of Hemingway’s novel are found among them. His main characters find themselves drifting, roaming around France and Spain, at a loss for something meaningful in their lives. The characters relate to each other in completely shallow ways, often ambiguously saying one thing, while meaning another. The Sun Also Rises first person narration offers few clues to the real meaning of his characters’ interactions with each other. The

Disillusionment does not merely occur in only novels; every single individual to walk the Earth will experience mental displeasure at some point within their lives. Nevertheless, many choose to let unfortunate events circle within their souls and become encrypted into their memory. Once this happens, the role of aimlessness takes its course, adverse fate reigns, and the feeling of disenchantment dwells in the mind. Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, grasps this very subject in a subliminal way; one must accurately analyze Hemingway’s somber tone and sparse writing style in order to find the hidden symbolism and themes captured within this literary work. His protagonist, Jake Barnes, has certainly experienced prodigious pain, but

In A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses damaged characters to show the unglamorous and futile nature of war and the effects it has on people. Hemingway wants readers to know that war is not what people make it out to be; it is unspectacular and not heroic. Hemingway also feels that war is futile by nature and that most goals in war have almost no point. He also shows readers that military conflict often causes people to have shallow values and to hide their pain for their own protection.

“Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises had provided a vivid picture of the deranged lives of young English and American expatriates crowding the bars in Paris, engaged in aimless merry-making and labeled as the “lost generation” by Stein.” (Toker,24). The years following World War I, the younger generation, after seeing the horrors of war, had the mindset of living fast and doing what they wanted since we were all damned to die. Ernest Hemingway’s, The Sun Also Rises, manifests Stein’s “Lost Generation” by incorporating the up-roaring lifestyle of the 20s through the characters personalities. Hemingway pursues this by focusing on the actions of the main characters: Brett Ashley, Jacob Barnes, and Robert Cohn. Through Jacob’s perception, the reader learns about the excessive drinking, partying, promiscuity, traveling, and self-alienation that the characters of the story took part in. Among these other things, excessive drinking is a constant theme throughout the novel, supporting Stein’s perception of this generation (Dubose, 2). No matter where any of the main characters where or whom ever they were with, they always had a drink in their hands, almost always in a constant state of drunkenness. The novel portrays an agonizing and distressing picture of the post-war generation, displaying two of Hemingway’s most remarkable characters: Jacob Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley (Toker, 26). Jake Barnes felt his disconnection from society because of his experiences in the war and his inability to indulge himself and love Lady Brett the way he wanted to.