The Sun Also Rises Research Paper

The Aimlessness of the Lost Generation

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway is considered as the main prose of the Lost Generation. This term Lost Generation was firstly coined by Gertrude Stein in a conversation made in Paris on 1920. The novel is considered as an impressive document of people, who belonged to this group known as Lost Generation because they had dreams and innocence shattered by World War I, emerged from the war sour and aimless, and most of the time spent partying away their frustrations and drinking. The World War I challenged traditional notions of faith, moral and justice. They weren’t able to rely on these traditional beliefs that make life meaningful, but women and men that experienced war get lost psychologically and morally,

Brett, Jake and the others have dramatic life, because they do not believe anymore to anything, nor to anyone, their lives are empty. This fact in the novel is known as loss. When they loosed their ideas, nationalism, and structures that herd self identity in the time of World War I, they seem to have lost themselves as well. Most of the time characters are restless, always in wander, asking for change of landscape, as if looking to run away. They would like to live somewhere other, rather than in Europe, but there are also some reasons why they stay. They have made themselves refugee, far from their houses, learning European cultures, but not joining them. The reader of the novel finds a scene in which Jake and the others feel as if not belonging anywhere. Sometimes Jake and his friend find some jobs such as editing or writing, but these occupations don’t seem to have regular hours and none of them are acceptable to any location or to any boss. These characters spend their time dancing, socializing, playing games, drinking and enjoying. These are all activities that are seen as childish pursuits, they become empty and tiresome, and part of a brutal circle in which the characters are always thinking on the next