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The Sun Also Rises
This novel began as a short story titled Cayetano Ordonez, "Nino de la Palma" and focused on a corrupt bullfighter. When Hemingway expanded the story into a novel, he first chose to title...
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The Sun Also Rises
Much like in T.S. Eliot's long poem The Waste Land, which also was written in the modernist period and reflects the lingering cultural influence of the massive deaths of World War I, one of the...
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway's first novel is The Sun Also Rises; the title comes from a phrase in the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The line comes in chapter one, verse five; here it is in context:...
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The Sun Also Rises
The bulls are potent, the steers, having been castrated, are not. The bulls are center stage in the sport of bull fighting, and are seen as noble and respected. The steers, on the other hand, exist...
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The Sun Also Rises
The title of this book, Hemmingway's first, actually comes from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible, Chapter 1 verse 5, which reads as follows: The sun also rises, and also goes down, then...
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a quintessentially modernist work in many respects: 1 - its charcters are more concerned with their own moral code and they pursue their own goals rathern than trying to...
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The Sun Also Rises
All of the places in the novel show the difference between meaningless and empty values. The novel opens in Paris, and this city represents a difference in the value of work and idleness. The Left...
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The Sun Also Rises
Sword-handlers and bull-ring servants came down into the bull-ring carrying wicker baskets of fighting capes and muletas. The sword handlers opened the sword cases and propped them up against the...
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The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway was famous for his code hero. The code was simple. Real men drank heavily, lusted after women, enjoyed bloodthirsty sports, and displayed no tolerance for homosexuality. They often suffer...
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is written using a first person narrator. First person narrators play a role in the action of the story, act as the protagonist (main character), and tend to...
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway’s first major successful novel, vividly portrays the rich culture of bullfighting in Spain. More specifically, Hemingway delves...
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The Sun Also Rises
"The Sun Also Rises," by Ernest Hemingway, is a book about morality, values, and the meaning of life. Because these subjects are heavy, deep, and complex, the book has about 260 pages....
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The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway takes his the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes 1:15: The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.Carlos Baker, Hemingway's biographer, has...
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The Sun Also Rises
The impotence that Jake suffers from acts as a very powerful metaphor for the way that war had changed perceptions of masculinity and challenged what it was to be a man. Whereas before, war was a...
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The Sun Also Rises
In chapter three, the novel's narrator, Jake Barnes, picks up a girl on the street in Paris. They later get into a cab together and kiss, but when Georgette "touched [him] with one hand... [he] put...
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The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway's novel, like many modernist works, challenges the ideal of progress and regeneration that previously characterized American thought. In the aftermath of the war, the traditional pillars...
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The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway is often considered by feminists to be a misogynistic writer. While I think this label might be a bit severe at times, in this novel Hemingway portrays his few female characters as...
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The Sun Also Rises
In writing this novel, Hemmingway chose to focus on characters who depicted what were known as the "lost generation." This phrase denotes the men and women who, having lived through the horrors of...
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The Sun Also Rises
Bullfighting also enacts the Hemingway code of the man behaving with grace under pressure. Romero does this. He is deliberate, humble, knowledgeable and does not flinch. He faces danger with...
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The Sun Also Rises
Many critics have made similar comparisons, and in large part they are based on the setting of the story. Both T. S. Eliot and Hemingway were deeply troubled by the events of the war and the way...
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The Sun Also Rises
It is important to think about the way in which this text presents us with the various characters roaming around aimlessly in Europe and following their decadent lifestyles. The role of alcohol in...
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The Sun Also Rises
Mike has fought in the war, but he has no medals of his own, having never sent in for the ones to which he may have been entitled. One night he is invited to a "whopping big dinner"which the Prince...
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The Sun Also Rises
The lost generation is a phrase that is used to refer to the characters that inhabit the novels and short stories of Hemingway, who occupy a kind of moral vacuum after their experiences in World...
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The Sun Also Rises
The way these three characters relate to the city of Paris reveals much about their values and their identities. Robert Cohn, the idealist in the group, is constantly disappointed with reality. He...
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The Sun Also Rises
Jake can be considered to be a reliable narrator. He reminds readers of Nick in Gatsby-in the way he tends to withhold instant judgements. He is a keen observer and does not spare himself in his...
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The Sun Also Rises
This quote gets to the heart of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. One of the book's primary themes is the search for meaning in a world that seems to be devoid of meaning. After the chaos of...
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway's first major novel, published in 1925, The Sun Also Rises, is a novel from the Modernist period. However, it incorporates elements from previous literary movements. Realism is the...
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The Sun Also Rises
When Bill and Jake go fishing together, the entire mood of the story changes for a brief interlude. When the men are out in the midst of nature, a type of peace transcends them. Jake temporarily...
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The Sun Also Rises
The quotation about bullfighters highlights the extreme danger and risk that bullfighters undertake in performing their art. Jake says these words in response to Robert's lament that his life "is...
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The Sun Also Rises
The trip to Spain offers respite to Jake. In Paris, he is truly a lost soul, an expatriate who seems to enjoy nothing in life, so he drinks excessively. In this chapter and in the following ones,...
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The Sun Also Rises
The reason that Brett breaks up with Romero is because she does not want to ruin him. She tells Jake, "He is only nineteen...youo know I'd have lived with him if I hadn't seen it was bad for...
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The Sun Also Rises
So much of Jake's discussion and the way that he comes to view things in the two chapters as he thinks about his life and his friends and his relationships is about this "it" and learning to be...
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a primary source if you are writing as essay on this novel. Primary sources are inside works, in a manner of speaking. When writing about a work of literature, or a work of...
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The Sun Also Rises
Yes, according to Enotes Hemingway bibliography: In 1925 he began work on The Sun Also Rises which reflected his life in Paris among the “Lost Generation.” In fact, Hemingway was inspired to...
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a tale of a group of Americans in post-world war one who represent the "Lost Generation". They leave America for Europe because they have grown dissatisfied and...
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The Sun Also Rises
The scene shows considerable parallels in the sense that both groups are, of course, in a search for a meaningful experience to give their lives meaning. The pilgrims journey to Rome in order to be...
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The Sun Also Rises
Montoya admires those bull fighters who have "aficion" - passion. He keeps their pictures on the walls of his hotel. The ones that lack "aficion" he keeps in a drawer, and one day, Jake explains,...
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The Sun Also Rises
Chapter 12 in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Eliot's The Waste Land both address themes of disillusionment with modern society, and the possiblity of redemption. In Chapter 12 of The Sun Also...
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The Sun Also Rises
Two primary literary techniques Hemingway uses to establish Jake as the "hero," or central male character, are narratorial point of view and character relationships. First of all, Jake is the...
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The Sun Also Rises
Spain is a getaway for each of these characters in The Sun Also Rises, but it does hold different symbolic and practical meanings for these three characters – Cohn, Brett, and Jake. For Cohn,...
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The Sun Also Rises
In ancient Celtic mythology, the Fisher King is a figure who is wounded in the legs or groin, and his resulting impotence directly affects the well-being of the land, which is essentially laid...
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The Sun Also Rises
In terms of the crowd they spend time with, the main difference between Jake and Robert Cohn is that Jake belongs.Robert is always an outsider, because of his personality, his choices, and the fact...
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The Sun Also Rises
Robert Cohn is the outsider of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. He is scorned by the other characters because he is Jewish and wealthy, wealth being something that Jake and his friends frown...
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The Sun Also Rises
This is a great question, because alcohol use, love, and identity are all major themes in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Below, you'll find an explanation for how each of these themes works...
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's novel of the "lost generation," combines elements of realism, naturalism and modernism. Hemingway was certainly following in the footsteps of American writers of the...
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The Sun Also Rises
Jake is an expatriat, an American living and working in Europe. He was in the war and was injured. As a result, Jake is impotent. Being a foreigner refers to the fact that World War I was...
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The Sun Also Rises
Jamie, I think you subconsciously threw out a pun on the affect/effect relationship in Hemingway. I read "the Hemingway affect" to mean the way he sometimes portrays the lack of affect /...
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The Sun Also Rises
The character Brett in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is most certainly not a positive female role model. None of the characters in that novel are positive role models, I would say....
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a novel with several settings. The general setting is Europe in the period between World War I and World War II. More specifically, the characters in the novel travel between...
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The Sun Also Rises
To answer your question, let's define milieu as both a social setting and the place, or in the case of The Sun Also Rises, places where the story develops. The main characters in the novel are...
