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The Sun Also Rises Emingway Character Flaws
As once Ernest Hemingway said” When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.” The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a story about the expatriotes who moved to Europe after WW2. In this novel, Ernest Hemingway purposely makes various characters flawed. The author makes Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, and Brettt (Lady Ashley) flawed in many aspects. Hemingway used this techniwue in order to make the readers feel the characters are realistic.
To begin with, unlike many other novels, emingway makes his main character very flawed. Jake Barnes is perceived as an insecure guy throughout the whole novel who is just wasting his life. Not only readers perceive this, but charcters in the
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