The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
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Key Facts
Title: The Sun Also Rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Type of book: Novel
Genre: Modernist, postwar, Lost Generation
Original language: English
Written in: Paris, 1920s
First published: 1926
Time set: 1924
Places set: Paris, Basque region of Spain including Pamplona, Madrid
Narrator: Jake Barnes
Point of view: First-person limited (Jake Barnes)
Tense: Past
Protagonist: Jake Barnes
Climax: Robert Cohn, in a rage over Brett’s rejection of him, first beats up her fiancé, Mike, and her secret love, Jake, then the bullfighter Pedro Romero, with whom Brett has just become involved.
Falling action: The day after the fiesta ends, Robert Cohn is gone and Brett has also left with Pedro Romero. Jake, Mike and Bill go their separate ways, with Jake intending to spend a quiet week in San Sebastian. Upon his arrival there, he gets a telegram from Brett asking that he come to her in Madrid, where he finds her poor and heartbroken after she has forced the young bullfighter to leave her for his own good.
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