The Sun Also Rises
Literary Criticism
Even though a novel may receive critical acclaim, there can still be perspectives that question about some of the information written. These criticism delve into what Hemingway wrote and investigate the issues and controversies within the novel. With any classic novel, many people are going to have opinions about it. They try to strip a novel of its praise and For a man such as Hemingway, he took all of his criticism seriously. Nonetheless, some individuals criticised that the novel acted as more than a memory of war, lacked femininity, a
There was an argument presented where The Sun Also Rises acts as a memory of war. In some aspects, the story may seem difficult to comprehend because it is a book of Hemingway’s memory from …show more content…
In his literary criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Michael Von Cannon claims that this literature was intended for “emphasizing moments of traumatic re-emergence and to counter any idea of repression and recovery” (Von Cannon 1) He compares Ernest Hemingway to other authors that published works during the time period of post-World War I, connecting them to the how all of their work mimicked these pastoral themes because it was the easiest topic to depict. Von Cannon points out how they are coined under the term “Lost Generation” because they tend to “express nostalgia, repression, and historical progress” of World War I (Von Cannon 6). He presents his argument by comparing The Sun Also Rises to another postwar novel The Great Gatsby, to validate his point that the authors glorified the consequences of the war by excessively drinking and not accepting responsibility. In the novel, the word “drink” is used one hundred and fifteen times, most of the time in the context of “want to have a drink?” (Hemingway n. pag). This showcases how Hemingway made as if drinking two-three times a day was acceptable. Hemingway portrayed a utopia where substance abuse was romanticised and the solution to any problem. Von Cannon argues that this angst the characters felt “forecasts this feeling of being stuck in wartime” (Von Cannon
Even though a novel may receive critical acclaim, there can still be perspectives that question about some of the information written. These criticism delve into what Hemingway wrote and investigate the issues and controversies within the novel. With any classic novel, many people are going to have opinions about it. They try to strip a novel of its praise and For a man such as Hemingway, he took all of his criticism seriously. Nonetheless, some individuals criticised that the novel acted as more than a memory of war, lacked femininity, a
There was an argument presented where The Sun Also Rises acts as a memory of war. In some aspects, the story may seem difficult to comprehend because it is a book of Hemingway’s memory from …show more content…
In his literary criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Michael Von Cannon claims that this literature was intended for “emphasizing moments of traumatic re-emergence and to counter any idea of repression and recovery” (Von Cannon 1) He compares Ernest Hemingway to other authors that published works during the time period of post-World War I, connecting them to the how all of their work mimicked these pastoral themes because it was the easiest topic to depict. Von Cannon points out how they are coined under the term “Lost Generation” because they tend to “express nostalgia, repression, and historical progress” of World War I (Von Cannon 6). He presents his argument by comparing The Sun Also Rises to another postwar novel The Great Gatsby, to validate his point that the authors glorified the consequences of the war by excessively drinking and not accepting responsibility. In the novel, the word “drink” is used one hundred and fifteen times, most of the time in the context of “want to have a drink?” (Hemingway n. pag). This showcases how Hemingway made as if drinking two-three times a day was acceptable. Hemingway portrayed a utopia where substance abuse was romanticised and the solution to any problem. Von Cannon argues that this angst the characters felt “forecasts this feeling of being stuck in wartime” (Von Cannon