Comparing The Legacy Of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
The Legacy of Hemingway's Words
Almost a century ago, Americans were living what would be known as the best time of their lives. The roaring 20’s was an age where it was expected to go against the norm: extravagant parties thrown at mansions, secret societies of expatriates, and a booming economy to fuel it all. The world has drastically changed since then. Can one still find inspiration to live spontaneously in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises? The elegance of the 1920s has passed with time, but the morals of the novel still live on in relevancy. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is a complete reflection of his life through experiences, time, and own personal belief that life is to be lived freely.
Ernest Hemingway is undoubtedly …show more content…
one of America's most profound writers. Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois born on July 21st 1899 (Ernest Biographical), he lived a very conservative lifestyle, reading and hunting (Reef 35). After finishing school he decided to volunteer in the army where he served in Italy as an ambulance driver during WW1 (Plimpton). Eventually, wounded Hemingway continued his stay in Italy spending most of his time in and out of the hospital (Plimpton). He returned back to Illinois and started his first job as a reporter for both Canadian and American newspapers (Ernest Biography). While traveling Hemingway wrote a number of books, this awarded him the nobel prize in 1954 (Reef 6). After living as an expatriate for a number of years, Hemingway decided to retire in Idaho (Plimpton). He suffered from loneliness and physical deterioration; because of this he wrote a memoir A Moveable Feast about his years traveling (Plimpton). He ends up taking his own life on July 2nd 1961 (Ernest Biography).
One of Hemingway's most famous novels The Sun Also Rises documents the most important times in his life. Most writing of it takes place in Paris “representing the disillusionment of him and his expatriates” (Ernest Biographical). He said in an interview that the story being about his life “may mix it up but [he] wanted to show [readers] what a fine crowd we [were]” (Plimpton). Hemingway being a part of the most famous people in American history holds a huge importance to him. The writing of this book was a way to communicate that to the people. Being a man of many love affairs, marriages, and hookups Hemingway also tells of the story of his struggle with love. Different than one could possibly think, Hemingway stated, “in Paris while writing The Sun Also Rises I was in love with two women” (Hotchner). This was Hemingway's first time actually writing about himself and the public ended up loving it. Every event and character throughout The Sun Also Rises represents an actual moment throughout Hemingway's life and that's what has kept the novel alive for so long. Jake Barnes, the protagonist throughout the novel alienates himself from society after his contribution to war (Gerogiannis ). Hemingways documentation of this was a way he could get out his own emotions and transition them into something everyone could understand.
One of The Sun Also Rises influences is the time period in which it was written; the 1920s being full of excitement, spontaneity and social events.
Hemingway ended up moving to Paris and settling with his first wife in the city of love. As the couple settled in and Hemingway began writing he became apart of an elite group of expatriates, he exclaims that “suppose you think there isn't any story...it moves along it time. There is a lot of dope about high society. I wanted to show you what a fine crowd we were” (Crouch). Hemingway incorporated different times of his life to the times he spent with these people throughout the novel The Sun Also Rises: “it was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening” (Hemingway 496). This explanation of the expats in real life documents how times were in the 1920s. Hemingway tries to explain the full definition of an expatriate though these …show more content…
words:
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You've become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You're an expatriate see? You hang in cafes (Hemingway 39).
Hemingway and the expats are still recognized in today's society. Being mentioned throughout The Sun Also Rises goes to show how important they were to Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway being such an amazing novelist clearly has a philosophy to live by.
He wished to live the most adventurous life, truthfully enjoying what it has to offer. Hemingway believed that being a writer meant seeing, tasting and doing (Reef 49). Hemingway lived his life based off of these words collecting experiences to then write about them: “his passions and impulses influenced what he wrote about war and big-game hunting” (Reef 4-5). His passion for the art of writing is what made him so successful. There wasn’t a time where he was not taking his life and putting it into words. Hemingway uses The Sun Also Rises to speak to the public about his beliefs and morals he gains from these experiences, he writes “I can't stand to think my life is going so fast and i'm not really living it” (Hemingway 38). Though this quote comes from a character within the novel, the character reflects that of him. Being a very noble man Hemingway wished to live by the truth. Within commentary of The Sun Also Rises he writes, “that was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement” (Hemingway 510). Hemingways hunch for the real in life is what made his works so groundbreaking, believing that his writings “should never be tampered with scrutiny” (Plimpton). These beliefs are all taught throughout his novels but they specifically show through\ The Sun Also Rises making it so
special.
Indulging into The Sun Also Rises gives one the true beauty of what it was like to be Ernest Hemingway or even one of his friends. His ability to connect one with himself through the novel and its characters without the writing being an autobiography directly, shows his writing abilities and passion. The novel also gives one a vivid display of what it was like to live in the most grand times of America's history. The longevity of the novel truly shows its importance to not only Hemingway but the ones keeping it alive through time.
After Hemingway's years of exploring he decided to live out the rest of his life in Idaho (Ernest Biography). All of the amazing experiences he went through got to him when he wasn't able to do any of it anymore. He ended up suffering from a deteriorating mental and physical health, because of this he ended up killing himself July 2nd 1961 (Ernest Biographical). Within The Sun Also Rises he reflects on this depression of his:
Working Bibliography
Crouch, Ian. “Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions.” The New Yorker, Conde Nast, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/hemingways-hidden-metafictions
"Ernest Hemingway - Biographical". Nobelprize.org, Nobel Media, AB 2014, Web. 1 Feb 2017. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html
“Ernest Hemingway Biography.” The Biography.com Website, A&E Television Networks, Sep. 2014, http://www.biography.com/people/ernest-hemingway-9334498#related
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Gerogiannis, Nicholas. “Ernest Hemingway.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939, edited by Karen Lane Rood, Gale Research Company, 1980, pp. 187-211.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Scribner, 2006.
Hotchner, A.E., “Hemingway in Love.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 2015, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ernest-hemingway-in-love-180956617/
McClinton-Temple, Jennifer. “Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises (1926).” Encyclopedia Of Themes In Literature. Vol. 2, Facts On File, 2011, pp. 552-554.
Oliver, Charles. Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference To The Life And Work. Checkmark Books, 1999.
Plimpton, George. “Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21.” The Paris Review, 2016, https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/ernest-hemingway-the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway
Reef, Catherine. Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life. Clarion Books, 2009.
Almost a century ago, Americans were living what would be known as the best time of their lives. The roaring 20’s was an age where it was expected to go against the norm: extravagant parties thrown at mansions, secret societies of expatriates, and a booming economy to fuel it all. The world has drastically changed since then. Can one still find inspiration to live spontaneously in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises? The elegance of the 1920s has passed with time, but the morals of the novel still live on in relevancy. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is a complete reflection of his life through experiences, time, and own personal belief that life is to be lived freely.
Ernest Hemingway is undoubtedly …show more content…
one of America's most profound writers. Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois born on July 21st 1899 (Ernest Biographical), he lived a very conservative lifestyle, reading and hunting (Reef 35). After finishing school he decided to volunteer in the army where he served in Italy as an ambulance driver during WW1 (Plimpton). Eventually, wounded Hemingway continued his stay in Italy spending most of his time in and out of the hospital (Plimpton). He returned back to Illinois and started his first job as a reporter for both Canadian and American newspapers (Ernest Biography). While traveling Hemingway wrote a number of books, this awarded him the nobel prize in 1954 (Reef 6). After living as an expatriate for a number of years, Hemingway decided to retire in Idaho (Plimpton). He suffered from loneliness and physical deterioration; because of this he wrote a memoir A Moveable Feast about his years traveling (Plimpton). He ends up taking his own life on July 2nd 1961 (Ernest Biography).
One of Hemingway's most famous novels The Sun Also Rises documents the most important times in his life. Most writing of it takes place in Paris “representing the disillusionment of him and his expatriates” (Ernest Biographical). He said in an interview that the story being about his life “may mix it up but [he] wanted to show [readers] what a fine crowd we [were]” (Plimpton). Hemingway being a part of the most famous people in American history holds a huge importance to him. The writing of this book was a way to communicate that to the people. Being a man of many love affairs, marriages, and hookups Hemingway also tells of the story of his struggle with love. Different than one could possibly think, Hemingway stated, “in Paris while writing The Sun Also Rises I was in love with two women” (Hotchner). This was Hemingway's first time actually writing about himself and the public ended up loving it. Every event and character throughout The Sun Also Rises represents an actual moment throughout Hemingway's life and that's what has kept the novel alive for so long. Jake Barnes, the protagonist throughout the novel alienates himself from society after his contribution to war (Gerogiannis ). Hemingways documentation of this was a way he could get out his own emotions and transition them into something everyone could understand.
One of The Sun Also Rises influences is the time period in which it was written; the 1920s being full of excitement, spontaneity and social events.
Hemingway ended up moving to Paris and settling with his first wife in the city of love. As the couple settled in and Hemingway began writing he became apart of an elite group of expatriates, he exclaims that “suppose you think there isn't any story...it moves along it time. There is a lot of dope about high society. I wanted to show you what a fine crowd we were” (Crouch). Hemingway incorporated different times of his life to the times he spent with these people throughout the novel The Sun Also Rises: “it was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening” (Hemingway 496). This explanation of the expats in real life documents how times were in the 1920s. Hemingway tries to explain the full definition of an expatriate though these …show more content…
words:
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You've become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You're an expatriate see? You hang in cafes (Hemingway 39).
Hemingway and the expats are still recognized in today's society. Being mentioned throughout The Sun Also Rises goes to show how important they were to Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway being such an amazing novelist clearly has a philosophy to live by.
He wished to live the most adventurous life, truthfully enjoying what it has to offer. Hemingway believed that being a writer meant seeing, tasting and doing (Reef 49). Hemingway lived his life based off of these words collecting experiences to then write about them: “his passions and impulses influenced what he wrote about war and big-game hunting” (Reef 4-5). His passion for the art of writing is what made him so successful. There wasn’t a time where he was not taking his life and putting it into words. Hemingway uses The Sun Also Rises to speak to the public about his beliefs and morals he gains from these experiences, he writes “I can't stand to think my life is going so fast and i'm not really living it” (Hemingway 38). Though this quote comes from a character within the novel, the character reflects that of him. Being a very noble man Hemingway wished to live by the truth. Within commentary of The Sun Also Rises he writes, “that was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement” (Hemingway 510). Hemingways hunch for the real in life is what made his works so groundbreaking, believing that his writings “should never be tampered with scrutiny” (Plimpton). These beliefs are all taught throughout his novels but they specifically show through\ The Sun Also Rises making it so
special.
Indulging into The Sun Also Rises gives one the true beauty of what it was like to be Ernest Hemingway or even one of his friends. His ability to connect one with himself through the novel and its characters without the writing being an autobiography directly, shows his writing abilities and passion. The novel also gives one a vivid display of what it was like to live in the most grand times of America's history. The longevity of the novel truly shows its importance to not only Hemingway but the ones keeping it alive through time.
After Hemingway's years of exploring he decided to live out the rest of his life in Idaho (Ernest Biography). All of the amazing experiences he went through got to him when he wasn't able to do any of it anymore. He ended up suffering from a deteriorating mental and physical health, because of this he ended up killing himself July 2nd 1961 (Ernest Biographical). Within The Sun Also Rises he reflects on this depression of his:
Working Bibliography
Crouch, Ian. “Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions.” The New Yorker, Conde Nast, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/hemingways-hidden-metafictions
"Ernest Hemingway - Biographical". Nobelprize.org, Nobel Media, AB 2014, Web. 1 Feb 2017. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html
“Ernest Hemingway Biography.” The Biography.com Website, A&E Television Networks, Sep. 2014, http://www.biography.com/people/ernest-hemingway-9334498#related
-video-gallery
Gerogiannis, Nicholas. “Ernest Hemingway.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939, edited by Karen Lane Rood, Gale Research Company, 1980, pp. 187-211.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Scribner, 2006.
Hotchner, A.E., “Hemingway in Love.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 2015, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ernest-hemingway-in-love-180956617/
McClinton-Temple, Jennifer. “Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises (1926).” Encyclopedia Of Themes In Literature. Vol. 2, Facts On File, 2011, pp. 552-554.
Oliver, Charles. Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference To The Life And Work. Checkmark Books, 1999.
Plimpton, George. “Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21.” The Paris Review, 2016, https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/ernest-hemingway-the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway
Reef, Catherine. Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life. Clarion Books, 2009.