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Bill Gorton In The Sun Also Rises
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Another character in The Sun Also Rises is Bill Gorton. As Jake and his friends Bill is also a veteran of the war, although he is not an emigrant. His personality in the book is used for many purposes, especially is used to exemplify Hemingway’s authority for the ability in the storytelling.
In order to deal with psychological and emotional fallout of the war, he most of the time uses humor. His jokes particularly on the fishing trip of Burguete, have not outlasted their particular time and this kind of humor is nearly the same as of the characters in the Shakespeare and Chaucer’s books. His drunken jabber about his back from Vienna to Paris is completely comic.
His occurrence in the book gives the author the chance for further

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