The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

From Hemingway’s outlandish family, to his principal influencers, it is understood that these are the key inspirations for his triumph in the writing realm. People either adored Hemingway or had a strong hatred for him. Hemingway connects to his writing in a way that no other author of his time period could, which is shown throughout his writing. A substantial part of Hemingway’s life was in the war, whether that was fighting or just helping out around the trenches. He did all of these things and still had a longing to travel the world. Ernest Hemingway was an excessively influential author to the overall modernism literary movement. He had a unique childhood and an extraordinary overall life. He took much pride in the quality of his

Ernest Hemingway had been an exquisite writer since the early to mid 1900’s. With an upbringing of a hard-working man who had been a journalist in World War 1 and loved to travel. He suffered from many injuries later in his life, but pushed through it. From it all, this created a strong man and writer with extremely meaningful, and well-known pieces. Hemingway fought through extreme obstacles to become what he always desired, a writer; as seen in his struggles of war, women, and mental illness. All of these issues in his life, made him a strong and heartfelt writer, who left an impact of great pieces to be read for centuries to come.

Love is an unexplainable emotion that exceeds the boundaries of all. In Earnest Hemingway 's "A Farewell to Arms" two character 's share a climactic endeavor through pain and suffrage finding their way back to each other no matter what. Hemingway expresses love as a necessity in one 's life, and even through gruesome terror and war it can never be broken. The story resonates with it 's readers on a personal and realistic level, being that it is written with some truth behind it; Hemingway 's style of writing portrays the definition of unexpected reality.

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,

Materialism is one of the fundamental American attitudes and encompasses a wide array of desires, such as those for power, wealth, and excess. As outlined in L. Robert Kohls’ piece “The Values Americans Live By,” the value of materialism is used in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, to illustrate how collecting or consuming an excess is used in attempts to stave off regret. Characters in both novels show how far Americans take this, and help to perpetuate Kohls’ ideas regarding self-indulgence and its effect on people and their relations with others.

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.

A quest, small or large, is located described in every most works of literature. Quests often require a great expedition on the part of the protagonist, and the overcoming of many obstacles, hardships and sufferings. A Majority of the time the character is not aware of the journey that they are embarking on. Stories such as; Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Cormac McCarthy's The Road are great examples of quests in modern literature. The characters in each novel embark on their own journey, and along the way find the courage, strength and will within themselves to achieve their goal.

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most legendary and influential writers of the 20th century. His many experiences in war and living in other countries shaped his ideas, opinions, and writing style. He also had a background in journalism that was considered the basis of his writing style. Hemingway is important to American literature because of his writing style and his perspective of war.

After a thorough reading and in-depth analyzation of Ernest Hemingway’s riveting novel The Sun Also Rises, the character of Brett Ashley may be seen in a number of different ways. While some critics such as Mimi Reisel Gladstein view Brett as a Circe or bitch-goddess, others such as Carol H. Smith see Brett as a woman who has been emotionally broken by the world around her. I tend lean towards the latter of these views, simply because of the many tragedies that transpired. Brett Ashley is a heroine who, despite being wounded by love and war, continues to pursue true love.

Ernest Hemingway is regarded as one of the most influential writers during the twentieth century. Born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway started his literary career writing newspapers in a local newspaper office. During World War One, he joined a unit in the Italian army, volunteering in an ambulance. While on the front, Hemingway was wounded and spent a considerable amount of time in the hospital. Later, he was presented with a medal for bringing back a wounded Italian soldier in spite of being wounded. Despite this setback, he returned back to the United States and became a reporter for American and Canadian newspaper. Shortly after, Hemingway was sent back to Europe to report events from the Greek Revolution.

In this universe, there exists innumerable examples of literature that merit the title of an AP book but for some reason are not taught in AP courses. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises exemplifies this idea. Although Hemingway is not the most popular author, his outlook on the roaring twenties and expatriate community in Paris reflect themes such as projected masculinity and action-reaction in a post-WWI environment pose serious artistic value written in descriptive yet clipped syntax.

Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises presents an interesting commentary on the fluidity of gender roles and the effects of stepping outside of the socially constructed binary approach to gender. Jake’s impotence and his inability to win Brett romantically results in a struggle with masculinity and inadequacy. Brett, possessing many masculine attributes, serves as a foil and embodies the masculinity the men in the novel lack. The juxtaposition of Jake’s struggle and Brett’s refusal to adhere to conventional feminine roles begs the question that gender, as a binary opposition, is simply a social construct and nothing more than a hypothetical truism. Brett’s assertion of masculinity over Jake further emphasizes the problem of his lack thereof.

In “The Sun Always Rises” by Ernest Hemingway, he states “ I can’t stand it to think that my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it”(Hemingway). This is a very fitting statement because of the fact that Hemingway is one of the most well known authors of modernism and the twentieth century. Modernism is characterized by the sudden breaks in traditional ways. Everyone was trying new things and leaving old ways behind. Modernism began at the beginning of the twentieth century and lasted until 1965. Hemingway is associated with this time period of literature. Ernest Hemingway had a long hard life being involved in three wars, being married and divorced or separated 4 times, and being a newspaper writer, these events greatly influenced his way of thinking of this great modernist author.

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.

In Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway sets the story during World War I, which takes place on the Italian front. This, being one of many successful novels Hemingway wrote, earned him the Nobel Prize. Hemingway grew up in a very successful family, with his father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, being a Physician. Tragically, his father took his life on December 6, 1928. With an emotional scar after the incident, Hemingway wrote his first book The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife. Then, he ran away from home and enlisted in the Red Cross Association on the Italian front. There he met a young nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, who accepted his proposal, but left him for another man instead. This incident inspired the book A Farewell to Arms. After having his heart broken, he returned back to America and married Hadley Richardson. Hemingway Published the book The Sun Also Rises, based on the rekindling of his broken heart, but commits adultery with Pauline Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer then becomes his second wife after the divorce with Richardson was finalized. Predictably, after having his first child, Patrick Hemingway, the couple divorced and he married Martha Gellhorn. Hemingway served in D-Day where he met a war correspondent, Mary Welsh. Hemingway and Welsh married. Shortly after, he wrote The Old Man and the Sea, earning him the Pulitzer Prize in 1951 that he earnestly longed for. Solely, Hemingway wrote his books on heartbreak, war, and women. Hemingway published 28 books