The Sun Also Rises Identity Analysis

The inherit struggle to find an identity in the first place is challenged by the existing world as well. Hemingway had always been fascinated with forces of nature. He was a big game hunter himself. Hemingway saw nature as being a wickedly beautiful force. Although nature looks beautiful physically, it is not to be confused with the esoteric inside. Nature in The Sun Also Rises is represented by the characters dissatisfaction with city life and suggestion of a trip to the San Fermin Festival in Spain. Jake feels that the natural landscape has something real and essential in it that the town does not have. The connection to nature is homogeneous to Hemingway’s connection which is where Jake’s comes from. In a monologue spoken by Jake we see
that the closer he gets to the real country, the more tied to nature he becomes. “In the Basque country the land all looks very rich and green and the houses and villages look well-off and clean. The houses in the villages had red tiled roofs, and then the road turned off and commenced to climb and we were going way up close along a hillside, with a valley below and hills stretched off back toward the sea.”. Diction such as “rich”, “well-off” and “clean” create a pure tone. A hallmark of Hemingway's prose is the crisp, steady attention to detail, a trait undoubtedly drilled into him by the expatriate writers (Gurko). The way Jake describes the landscapes shows his astonished outlook on nature. Hemingway makes Jake describe the landscape descriptively and adds length to help readers appreciate the land as much as Jake does.