Fate In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

What is Fate? In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, relationships and fate are introduced. Hemingway uses two fictional characters, Jake and Brett, to show whether their relationship is potentially a tragic relationship. The story is not taking place in present day. Instead, Hemingway’s novel is based off during the time immediately after WWI. Jake and Brett both like each other, but feel as though they should not. Jake and Brett are suffering from their tragic relationship; however, fate may be a key ingredient that brought together in the first place. The relationship with Jake and Brett I feel like it is tragic because Jake feels like Brett is the love of his life, but she refuses to enter a relationship with him. That could be tragic to Jake because he wants to be in a relationship with Brett, but she does not

The first time that Jake and Brett met was in the hospital because Jake was an American soldier who was serving in France at the time of WWI. Brett was a nurse in France and was Jake's nurse at the time of his injury during the war. If Jake would have never been injured or if Brett would have never became a nurse then they would have never met. It could also be fate because if Jake and Brett would not have gone out on the same night and saw each other then they would have never seen each other the second time. If those factors had never happened, who knows where those two would be today. That is why I do believe that fate brought Jake and Brett together in the first place. I believe in fate because there has to be several factors that have to happen in order for two people to meet. If one of the factors never happen then you could end up meeting a totally different