Why The Sun Also Rises?

From the beginning of Joffrey Herlihy-Mera’s article, the concern with expatriates in Paris in The Sun Also Rises is prominent. He chooses to deal with this theme only basing his critics upon the first chapters of the book which “were removed before the book went to press”. We could claim at viewing his work as a controversial one since if the author didn’t publish the first chapters, how a critic can be based specifically upon something that doesn’t exist in the final edition? In order to give sense and depth to his critic, Joffrey Herlihy-Mera breaks away from what other people might have written and takes a total opposite stance. However, negative, pessimistic, are words that clearly connote his article when reading it from an outside point of view. Rather than being an original style of writing, it emphasizes a theme of the novel which isn’t depicted in a dark way by Hemingway himself and tends to overstate the speech of the critic.

A main character whose name in the first shift Hemingway wrote was “Hem”. That’s a reason why The Sun Also Rises is viewed by many critics, such as Joffrey Herlihy-Mera, as a semi-autobiographical novel based on its author’s experiences in Paris and Spain after the 1920’s. These similarities between Hemingway’s adventures in the French capital and the daily life, in the same city, of Jake Barnes, are recurrent in the critics of the book. Each point concerning the personae of the novel developed in this article consistently draws a parallel with Hemingway’s feeling about what he lived