First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises concerns a group of American living in Europe during the 1920s. ... Jake also tells us that he was wounded in World War I, and that his injury has left him in the supremely frustrating condition of being impotent without diminishing his sexual desire. Jake brings the tale into the present night at the Café Napolitan, a popular haunt of the "lost generation" and the avant garde in the Left Bank district of Paris. ...

• Word Count: 1219
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Lady Brett Ashley Lady Brett Ashley is a very unique character in the novel The Sun Also Rises. ... This causes her to lose the one love of her life and spend the rest of it wandering from relationship to relationship searching for true love much as the lost generation searched for their prewar values of love and romance that simply didn't exist when they came back. ... Lady Brett is also blessed with stunning beauty and great charisma. ... Finally, at the end of the novel Jake has given up on te novel and realizes that it is a lost cause. ... The character of Lady Brett Ashley ...

• Word Count: 593
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The first novel Hemingway wrote was The Sun Also Rises, in 1926. Critics said that the book did well for his first novel, and they described it as, "A satirical picture of the dissolute life of the Lost Generation in postwar Europe"(Hays 54.) The Sun Also Rises depicts life in Paris in the 1920's. ... The main theme of this novel is war disrupts life and that time period is a lost generation. The Sun Also Rises is "Probably Hemingway's best-known novel, certainly the one on which much of his reputation stands"(Oliver 315.) ...

• Word Count: 1080
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At the age of 26, he produced The Sun Also Rises to achieve his own position in American literature. The book deals with the living attitude of the postwar generation especially those who thought that life was nothing and meaningless, and Hemingway became a representative of the "Lost Generation". ... Also, it takes a rather important position in American literature. ... He also recalled his energetic youth. ...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School