Throughout Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, a variety of rousing character details and setting descriptions reveal the novel's success of cultivating both disquietude and pleasure within the reader of the text. ... For the duration of each bullfight that Hemingway eloquently illustrates throughout The Sun Also Rises, the reader understands that the matador confronts death and may very likely not exit the ring a living man. ... She is truly an unhappy character, which is openly stated when she confesses to Jake, "oh darling, I've been so miserable " (Hemingway 32). ... The ...

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In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the narrator, Jake Barnes, describes Robert Cohn, a rich Jew who graduated from Princeton with low self-esteem, an unsuccessful marriage, and a vanished inheritance. ... Hemingway, however, implies that their drunkenness does nothing but exacerbate the psychological and emotional turmoil from which Jake and his companions are already suffering. While Hemingway never actually states that Jake and his friends' lives are aimless, the concept is alluded to through his illustration of their psychological conditions, which contrast with their sur...

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"Lost Generation" - the term that emerged in the period between the two Wars (the First and the Second World Wars) and referring/ed to young soldiers who fought between 1914 and 1918 , and who returned home mentally or physically disabled" (Sarason, 1972: 3) The brightest representative of the "Lost Generation" the great Ernest Hemingway popularized this term in his autobiographical novel "The Sun also Rises". ... There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening» (Hemingway, 1954: 146). In addition, another important detail wh...

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