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How Jake Barnes Character Changes

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Grady Williams
Mr. Nuckols
English 11H
6 January 2023
How Jake Barnes’ Feelings get Changed Wherever he goes In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the reader visits many different places in Spain and France. With each setting change, the mood of the characters often changes. Hemingway uses the settings in The Sun Also Rises to portray the feelings of characters in the book, specifically Jake because his mood changes when he is in various places such as Paris, Pamplona, and Burguete. Jake is part of the lost generation and is living an aimless life. He chases a woman he is in love with, but knows he can not have, goes around town getting drunk nearly every night, and does not ever stop to live his life while he is in his home city of Paris, …show more content…

The day leading up to the fiesta was full of laughter and happy memories for Jake and his friends, Jake describes their dinner like that too, “As a matter of fact, supper was a pleasant meal. Brett wore a black, sleeveless evening dress. She looked quite beautiful. Mike acted as though nothing had happened. I had to go up and bring Robert Cohn down. He was reserved and formal, and his face was still taut and sallow, but he cheered up finally. He could not stop looking at Brett. It seemed to make him happy. It must have been pleasant for him to see her looking so lovely, and know he had been away with her and that everyone knew it. They could not take that away from him. Bill was very funny. So was Michael. They were good together” (Hemingway 75). The group is going to dinner together and everyone is in a good mood, Jake later says he forgets about his feeling of disgust and is happy sitting at dinner with his friends, this is what Jake came to Pamplona for. The following day, Jake’s vacation takes a turn for the worst, “Before the waiter brought the sherry the rocket that announced the fiesta went up in the square. It burst

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