The Sun Also Rises

Jake’s physical trauma has a significant impact on him because it makes him feel less superior and effeminate about his masculinity as he continues to encounter new relationships. Jake met a woman named Georgette off the streets and he invited her to dinner. When they were driving around in a taxi, she tried to touch Jake and he refused. He told her that he was sick and she said “ It’s a shame you’re sick. We get on well. What’s the matter with you anyway?” (Hemingway 24) Jake’s sickness is referred to his wound. Until Jake reveals that he was hurt in the war, Georgette believed that he was just sick. When Georgette says “ it’s a shame that you’re sick”, she is telling him that it is embarrassing and humiliating. It turns out that

The main reason that Brett’s life is so miserable is because she loves Jake, but they cannot be together. Critics have speculated as to whether she really loves him or not, even going so far as to say she merely wants what she cannot have. However, the text does not support that claim. Brett says over and over again how much she loves Jake and cannot stand being apart from him. She recognizes that it is better for them to be apart, but that she has no control over it. When Jake asks whether she wants them to see each other, she simply replies, “I have to” (35). Each time they touch each other and become affectionate, Brett becomes shaky and must stop it. She says to Jake in the cab, “Love you? I simply turn all to jelly when you touch me” (34). These two have a special kind of relationship that none of the other

The fact that Brett is somewhat of a party girl isn’t a new concept, the idea is not something newly founded. She has many male friends whom she drinks, dances, and sometimes becomes romantic with. Jake for example loves Brett very much, but because Brett seeks physical exchanges between her and her partners she will never love Jake back. This lack of true fondness never stops her from kissing him or cuddling him the way a couple would. The character of Brett was designed solely to expand upon the idea of the 1920’s new woman. Frances is meant to be the total polar opposite of that. She is your traditional housewife type of lady. She very muchs follows traditional values of marriage. Frances is the type of lady who marries a man then has children, and while her spouse is off at work she does the cooking and the cleaning and makes supper before her husband returns home. Frances is almost the ideal housewife as we see portrayed in movies and many other books. The differences we see in the lives of Lady Brett and Frances are all aroused by their desire to stay close to tradition or to break free of them. Brett has engulfed herself into the lifestyle of the 1920’s new woman, whereas Frances has stuck by what she knows, traditional values and

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.

Brett is a solid, generally autonomous lady. She applies extraordinary control over the men around her, as her excellence and moxy appear to beguile everybody she meets. In addition, she declines to focus on any one man, leaning toward extreme autonomy. Be that as it may, her freedom does not make her upbeat. She much of the time grumbles to Jake about how hopeless she is—her life, she claims, is purposeless and unsuitable. Her meandering from relationship to relationship parallels Jake and his companions' meandering from bar to bar. Despite the fact that she won't focus on any limited, she appears to be uncomfortable being without anyone else's input. As Jake comments, "She can't go anyplace alone."

Later in the novel, Frances attacks Robert with questioning and anger because he keeps resisting to finally seal the knot and marry her leading the two to go their separate ways. It can be seen that Jake despises Cohn once more for being able to have a relationship with a woman and not take his chance to marry while he can. He also has his forsaken love for Brett shown off in front of his face due to the many interactions with her and Count Mippipopolous, a man who takes her out many times. That night, thinks to himself about all his attempts to get Brett to love him back and how he is very upset with being alone all the time. “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.” (P. 42). A monologue of how Jake still desires to be in a relationship with Brett is given as he weeps in his bed about how it is easier to hide your emotions and regrets in the day, but at night it is difficult to hide them from yourself. This is a driving force in the story which will causes more frustration within Jake’s character.

This shows the independence and freedom women were starting to get back then. Brett is both masculine and feminine in the story but mostly shows more of here masculine side throughout. The war was a major reason why women resulted in having to fulfill the masculine role, because men would be affected by the war emotionally or physically. Hemingway uses Jake as a example of loss, by taking away his ability to have sex.Ever since this loss forced Jake to change his view on masculinity. Jakes is wanted by many women but cant have physical relations with him due to his injury. Hemingway provides us with a description that shows Jakes problem with his masculinity. In chapter 3, Hemingway writes,“looked up to be kissed. She touched me with one hand and I put her hand away. "Never mind." "What’s the matter? You sick?" "Everybody’s sick. I’m sick too."(Hemingway 23).This quotes shows Jake incapability for sexual actions as that the main reason why him and Brett can't and didn't end up together.

A common problem for many people in the world for many ages has been adversity and misfortune. Human beings have never dealt with misfortune in an efficient manner and this has been an universal problem throughout history and in the present day.There are many symptoms of depression and Hemingway details the effects of adversity and one way of dealing with it using literary devices such as tone, imagery, diction, detail and point of view in his novel. The Sun Also Rises.

Jake and Brett's relationship with one another is ridiculous. Brett goes out with other men and gets drunk. Jake loves and hates Brett for the actions she takes. Brett tells Jake that she loves him and talks about the other men she has been with. Jake tells her that she is being drunk and to shut up about it. Brett leaves the men she has been with just to come back to Jake for support. Jake loves being her emotional crutch because she is around him more

At the end of the novel, Jake and Brett are sitting in a taxi and Brett arrogantly says, “we could have had such a damned good time together” in a way that reveals the powerlessness that Jake feels (250). Jake is powerless towards Brett in this situation because he cannot do anything about their relationship. Their relationship will never work for the fact that Brett wants something that Jake just does not

The outcome and brutality of the Great War causes the change and promotion of many things in Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises. Some of the most evident changes the Great War causes are the changes in the traditional roles of men and women and in the promotion in the use of alcohol. Hemingway expresses these changes through the actions of some of the books main characters, most notably Jake and Brett. The novel’s characters perform these taboo and abnormal actions in response to the Great War and the war’s impact on the characters.

Jake is not a wealthy man; however, his ego gets the better of him. Time and again, he keeps a tight check of his bank account balance. But when Brett starts hanging out with Count Mippipopolous, Jake is not averse to offering up his money when they all go out together. Money takes a back seat to Jake's ego. Once, Brett sends the Count out for champagne so that she could be alone with Jake. Whereupon she talks to him about her fiancé, Michael and this shoots down Jake's already bruised ego to its lowest. However, For Jake, just to be with Brett is pure happiness. He is so blinded with love for her that he doesn't even flinch when she does

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

In Hemingway's philosophical paradigm, it is subconsciously encoded that Jake suffers with poise and refinement. He does not become irate with Brett for her decision, by contrast, he accepts her promiscuity and even chooses to help her in a multitude of ways, even though she repeatedly claims that she loves him. Consequentially, this is not to say that Jake did not suffer, rather than to suggest that he keeps his pain suppressed so as not to enervate himself any further. Jake knows the two can never initiate a relationship yet he still wishes to do so; his undying desire to be with Brett serves as his illusion even though it is a complete contradiction of his reality, as presented in the novel. This is the disheartening romantic imagery that deceits his realistic views. For example, in Chapter 7, Hemingway’s use of minimum dialogue between Brett and Jake has much meaning, which is rarely expressed throughout the novel. “Couldn’t we live together, Brett? …” “I don’t think so. I’d just tromper you with everybody.” (p. 62) Essentially, what Brett is saying is that due to his – handicap, if you will, all she would do is hurt Jake and commit constant infidelity against him, therefore, any chance for commitment is but a joke. This direct dialogue sets the underlying conflict as a form for one of the main themes expressed by Hemingway throughout this novel.

As many generations change and grow, they can are influenced by the time period. As shown in the 1920s the generation was affected by the events that surrounded them and made them interact in the ways they did. Even though the 1920s were full of adventure, entertainment, but that changed the way in which society acted. In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway responds to Gertrude Stein’s belief his generation is lost by believing it is true about the lost generation losing morals and faith. This is shown throughout the events and proof that these moral failings are specifically true about the lost generation. Hemingway makes this argument by presenting ideas in the book that affect the interactions between characters.