The Sun Also Rises

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The Sun Also Rises (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Hemingway's characters in The Sun Also Rises are much like the people with whom he came into daily contact in Paris in the early 1920's. A large group of expatriates, labeled by Stein “the lost generation,” lived by their wits, by what jobs they could find, or by handouts from home. So it is with the characters in Hemingway's novel.

The story revolves around two Americans—Jake Barnes, a newspaperman whose war injury has made him impotent, and Robert Cohn, who boxed well enough at Princeton University that he became the university's middleweight boxing champ. Cohn,...

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See Also:

• Ernest Hemingway (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Ernest Hemingway (Short Fiction)
• Ernest Hemingway (Long Fiction)
• Ernest Hemingway (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Ernest Hemingway (Censorship)
• Ernest Hemingway (Identities and Issues)

See Also:

• - For teachers, the The Sun Also Rises Lesson Plan.
• - The Sun Also Rises summary and study guide in the eNotes.