The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway is a classic novel, telling the story of Americans in Europe in the early nineteen-twenties. The characters who are showcased in the this story are part of the Lost Generation, the generation who lived through the horrors of World War I, called the Great War in that time period. Many of them, such as the characters in The Sun Also Rises, developed a cynical attitude towards American life and chose to immigrate to Europe. ... Not unlike most of the characters of The Sun Also Rises, Robert experienced harsh alienation from society, in his case, anti-Semitism. ....

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This point is evident in some of his most famous works that helped him to gain acclaimed success: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... The Sun Also Rises, one of Hemingway's most celebrated novels, shows why Hemingway stood out among the writers of his time. Jake Barnes, the main character that represents Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, is both "disillusioned and emasculated as a result of the war" (Schafer 1). ... In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway calls the post World War I generation the "Lost Generation" (The Sun Also Rises??). ... Barnes emotional...

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When Hemingway came back to America from the Italian front after the war was over, America just seemed to be boring and dull (Lost Generation 2). He once described where he grew up after he had come back from the war as "A place where people had wide lawns and narrow minds" (Lost Generation 2). ... Hemingway became close to these authors and after Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway "You are all a lost generation" a new term was coined and they thus were referred to as "The Lost Generation" (Lost Generation 4). All of the writers of the "Lost Generation" were Americans that were somehow disenf...

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The sense of 'local' community was being lost. ... The British Empire, which had expanded under Queen Victoria and in 1900 had reached 13 million square miles, also began to disintegrate. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history ...

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