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    "I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main theme is manliness..." once said by Ernest Gaines . Although Ernest Hemingway takes a different route to manliness in his book‚ The Sun Also Rises. It is made evident with the radical reevaluation of what it is to be masculine‚ and the rendering of Jake’s manhood‚ useless because of an injury obtained during World War 1 that the recurring theme is the male insecurity. First‚ the male insecurity is shown as World War 1 questioned what it real

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    Throughout the entire book of The Sun Also Rises‚ hardly a page goes by without referencing any alcohol. From the very beginning of the book‚ the main character/protagonist‚ Jake meets a young prostitute named Georgette and they have drinks together. She states that‚ “Everybody’s sick. I’m sick too”. Bars‚ dance clubs‚ cafes where alcohol is served seems to be a place of escape for a majority of the characters. Jake Barnes‚ like the other characters‚ uses the consumption of alcohol to escape what

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    Krysta Kenney Dr. Susan Finch ENGL 370 15 December 2011 The Woman Behind the Mask: Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises has always been regarded as one of Ernest Hemingway’s most hated characters. Both critics and readers have seen her simply as a bitch‚ and do not view her as a likeable or relatable character in any way. Her alcoholism‚ her use and abuse of men‚ and her seeming indifference to Jake Barnes’s love are just a few reasons

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    relationships between the characters by Cohn being the steer and the bulls being the rest of the characters. 7. Mike Compares Cohn to a steer because he believes that Cohn doesn’t say much and leads a quit life and always hanging around like a steer. He also says that Cohn follows Brett around like a steer. 8. . "What if Brett did sleep with you? She’s slept with lots of other people better than

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    While it is true that Jake Barnes physical injury prevents him from fulfilling his desires‚ the fact is that it also serves as a metaphor for the lost generation. The injury that Jake Barnes receives in the war insinuates to the problems that this generation had. Many of them were scared by the war and it was impossible for them to reintegrate themselves back into society. Jake Barnes attempts to reinsert himself into society throughout the novel‚ and repeatedly has trouble doing so. At first with

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    Two related themes pointed out by scholars in their analysis of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises are the debate whether expats in Paris have a pleasure living as they do or a negative experience of their days in a country which is not theirs; along with the needs for introspection and questioning upon the meaning of the fiesta. Even though to be in conflict with society and especially its values and beliefs isn’t easy for many authors to do‚ Ernest Hemingway breaks out this idea in order to give the

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    dissatisfaction. He directly states this idleness and lack of control in the book. The Sun Also Rises; “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking‚ not working. You are an expatriate‚ see? You hang around cafes” (TSAR‚ 60). On the other hand‚ the main focus

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    Proposal on The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” is about a group of friends that share similarities with their lifestyles. Lady Ashley‚ also known as Brett‚ likes to drink‚ dance‚ have sex‚ and take advantage of men. She has been through two marriages already one ending with the death of her husband‚ and the other is ending because he is a mentally and emotionally abusive husband. Robert Cohn‚ who is a boxer and Jewish‚ also likes to drink. He is infatuated with Brett‚ but

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    The characters whose story Hemingway tells in The Sun Also Rises are referred to as “the lost generation.” These characters‚ all greatly affected by the tragedies of war‚ were disillusioned with their own country and attempted to find solace in Paris. In the hustle bustle and excitement of the city‚ they still seem to long for some sort of escape and this is where Hemingway brings in pastoral language and other forms of escapism. The novel begins with a long epigraph from Ecclesiastes (read). This

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    Participation in the war can alter ones views of the world. For Hemingway and the characters of The Sun Also Rises it meant the world had lost its innocence‚ and that traditional Christian morality no longer had any relevance. The expatriates lack religion as a whole and although they may know the concept they simply have no hope or faith. In The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway‚ the difficulties of Brett‚ Jake and Bill can be directly attributed to the lack of religious faith that stems from their

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