Symbolism In The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway
During the midst of World War I, many of the younger men and women felt that their lives had no purpose at all. Herbert Hoover once said, "Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath”. The era after World War I represents the inheritance of misery and sorrow for the generation that strains to receive some form of happiness, known as the lost generation. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is the perfect example of this generation after the war. Hemingway utilizes the description and symbolism of the characters in order to present the purposeless destruction of the lost generation. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises begins
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Brett illustrates a life of a woman who looks life in multiple relationships. She has a way of making men fall for her even though she is married. Even though she is with multiple men including her husband she always seems to fall back to Jake. Jake however is unable to fulfill her one wish, which is an intimate relationship, due to his injuries from the war. After the war many gender roles changed, the most important being that women were able to make decisions form themselves. Brett represents the carelessness of the lost generation. Brett knows there isn’t much to life so she is doing what she can while she can. Brett is foolish when it comes to love, she falls in love with anyone who is willing to give her attention. Hemingway describes Brett as a character who is destruction to the people around her. In chapter nineteen, Brett says, “"I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of those bitches that ruins children” (Hemingway 247). This just goes to show that she is out living life not caring about who gets in the way. Brett worked in the medical field during the war, which showed her all the different things that it caused. I believe that this took a toll on her, she ultimately changes her making her Hemingway's idea of females during this lost
Brett illustrates a life of a woman who looks life in multiple relationships. She has a way of making men fall for her even though she is married. Even though she is with multiple men including her husband she always seems to fall back to Jake. Jake however is unable to fulfill her one wish, which is an intimate relationship, due to his injuries from the war. After the war many gender roles changed, the most important being that women were able to make decisions form themselves. Brett represents the carelessness of the lost generation. Brett knows there isn’t much to life so she is doing what she can while she can. Brett is foolish when it comes to love, she falls in love with anyone who is willing to give her attention. Hemingway describes Brett as a character who is destruction to the people around her. In chapter nineteen, Brett says, “"I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of those bitches that ruins children” (Hemingway 247). This just goes to show that she is out living life not caring about who gets in the way. Brett worked in the medical field during the war, which showed her all the different things that it caused. I believe that this took a toll on her, she ultimately changes her making her Hemingway's idea of females during this lost