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The Sun Also Rises Tragedy Quotes

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“In the morning it was raining. A fog had come over the mountains from the sea. You could not see the tops of the mountains. The plateau was dull and gloomy, and the shapes of the trees and the houses were changed. I walked out beyond the town to look at the weather. The bad weather was coming over the mountains from the sea.” (Hemingway 174); an omen of the metaphorical storm of a tragedy that would befall Jake and his compatriots. This tragedy is the result of the flawed characters, strenuous circumstances, and pessimistic, yet realistic, lack of hope the main character finds himself feeling in the conclusion of the book. The Sun Also Rises is a tragedy that depicts the miserable lives of expatriates coping with their mental and physical …show more content…

He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Isn’t it pretty to think so?’” (251) In this quote, Jake does not even seem to try to imagine the life he and Brett could have had together, only that they could not have it even if they wanted to. The greatest tragedy here is that Jake seemed to have given up, not on life or anything existential, but just on romanticism. Both know that they could not have each other due to Jake’s ‘condition’ and Brett’s sexual tendencies, and while Brett appeared to still dwell on the life that could have been, Jake had obviously given up. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway displays a tragic storyline with deeply flawed, broken characters. No character had an actual ‘happy ending’ or general improvement in their lives; if anything they were worse off at the end than the beginning and had hurt each other more. If not for these reasons, then the very fact of Jake’s abandonment of romantic ideas should be thoroughly convincing that The Sun Also Rises is in fact, a

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He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.

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Jake also will never move on from his current ways of drinking, traveling and being an outcast to society. In the last few lines of the novel, Brett tries convincing Jake, "we could have had such a damned good time together, but Jake replies, "Isn't it pretty to think so?" (Hemingway 163). Brett wants to believe that everything could have worked out between the two of them, but Jake knows that they were doomed from the start.

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway takes place in the 1920s in Paris. The novel starts out focusing on Robert Cohn, while the rest of it is narrated by Jake. He is an expatriate, is madly in love with Brett, and has a war injury. Jake Barnes was raised Catholic and has had an on-again-off-again fling with Brett. He talks about Brett and his religion differently than how he thinks about them.

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“I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley. The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves, or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche, or the cracking reverberated along the mountains of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands. These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving. They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquilized it.

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