Examples Of Imagery In The Sun Also Rises By Hemingway

In the Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses visual imagery to suggest the idea that every good thing must come to an end. In the middle of chapter sixteen, after Jake and his friends watched the bullfights in Pamplona, rough storms have just passed through the city. Despite the wet and windy conditions, the “crowd was massed on the far side of the square” (Hemingway 182) ready to celebrate the festival with fireworks. The “fireworks king” was “standing above the head of the crowd to launch the balloons into the wind” (182), but as soon as the fireworks hit the air, it “[brings] them all down” and they end up “[falling] into the crowd and [charging] and [chasing], [sputtering] and [cracking], between the legs of the people” (182). By including