The Sun Also Rises

The novel The Sun Also Rises is a novel that truly displays the tragedy of love and the shear devastation that sex can cause. Lady Brett Ashley is a woman who just can’t seem to make up her mind about who she wants to be with and she has many various admirers. This causes many quarrels among men and hurts the man that she could possibly love the most. The rising theme in the novel displays the aimlessness of the Lost Generation. The characters don’t really know why they are doing what they are doing and have no end goal in sight. This novel has a variety of different aspects of life that Hemingway was able to bring into plain view. The Sun Also Rises is obviously a book that was written between the time periods of the two wars. Almost all

They have no purpose behind the things that they are doing. They often drink just to drink and travel to many different places without any real intent of settling down. Many of the characters in the novel seem to just be riding along in this fantasy world of partying. These characters are prime examples of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920’s. The 1920’s were a time of partying and aimlessness where the people really had no clue where they are or what they want. Hemingway very accurately portrays this in the novel through the wild partying and the avid drinking of the characters. The novel takes place in Europe, which is very common for this time period, because many Americans moved to Europe after the war. During their time in Europe Lady Brett switches between multiple men and doesn’t really choose a man that she wants to be with. This ultimately leads up to the climax of the story when Cohn beats up Jake, Mike, and Romero. Cohn does this out of anger towards Brett and her inability to remain faithful to one man. This moment embodies the frustration and disillusionment experience by all of the novel’s main characters in a very physical manner. Towards the end of the novel Brett

Jake is the narrator in the story so we really get to see everything from his perspective, however; he also serves as the protagonist in the story. He and his friends drink and party on many occasions and Jake is the most stable of the group. He struggles with his love for Lady Brett and the fact that the war left him impotent. He eventually realizes at the end of the novel that things will never work out with Brett and that things might have not have worked out even if he still had proper function. He positions himself as an observer in the novel using insight to only describe the people around him and hardly ever speaks directly about himself. The love of his life, Brett, is a very beautiful British woman who drinks quite often. At the beginning of the novel Brett is getting a divorce with her husband and even though she loves Jake very much she is unwilling to be with him because she could not have sex anymore. This, however, is a problem that takes place throughout the novel because she is unwilling to commit to any man and has multiple affairs with many of the men in the story. She does not gain any happiness from her decisions and she accurately portrays the life of many people in this generation, unfulfilling and aimless. Bill, like Jake, is a WWI veteran and drinks quite heavily and because of his veteran status him and Jake get along very well. As for Robert Cohn he is a very wealthy