The Sun Also Rises | Jake and Brett: Mutual Destruction

In the following essay, Jeffrey M. Lilburn discusses the mutually destructive nature of Jake and Brett’s relationship as well as the characters who, critics contend, might provide Jake with a model of behavior.

Set in Paris and Spain shortly after the end of World War I The Sun Also Rises, for many the finest of Hemingway’s longer works, is frequently described as a novel that captures the mood of an age. Its publication in 1926 forever identified the author with a generation and, even today, it is difficult, if not impossible for many readers and critics to consider Hemingway’s works without drawing on the wealth of biographical information available on the now-famous expatriate artists of the 1920s. Centered around Jake and...

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