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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...
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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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Literature
Despite the long span of years that separates contemporary society from the society of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the novel is still relevant and contains many similarities to the...
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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
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
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
When the novel begins, Robert Cohn has had a very negative experience with women. Straight out university he “was married by the first girl who was nice to him” (Hemingway). The use of the...
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The Sun Also Rises
Robert Cohn is one of the main characters in Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, about expatriates living in Europe after World I. The narrator of the novel, Jake Barnes, spends several pages at...
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast actually share many similarities, despite the fact that one is meant to be fiction and the other a memoir. both take place in Paris of the 1920s the primary...
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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 in one sense is a portrayal of the code of hyper-masculinity that dominated Hemingway's writing and public persona, with its stereotypical accoutrements of...
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Mrs. Dalloway
While all three novels are Modernist in their approach, with narratives cast in first person, plots concerned with the ills of society after World War I, themes of disillusionment and...
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The Sun Also Rises
The presence of Brett Ashley, a beautiful, but emasculating woman who wears her hair combed back more like a man and whose name is even masculine, causes some dissension among the men. For, after...
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The Sun Also Rises
The conversations among the characters in this novel are indicative of the Lost Generation’s dissatisfaction with life that they cannot seem to escape. In Chapter VIII, Frances has left for...
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The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes, the narrator, has been having a drink with a published novelist, Jake Cohn, whom he does not particularly like, but he plays tennis with him. In a while, Jake makes his excuses and...
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The Great Gatsby
Brett and Daisy are shown to be unable to love in a sincere and authentic manner. Both women's ability to love is precluded by other elements. These realities have overshadowed the capacity to love...
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The Great Gatsby
One way in which Gatsby failed to perceive reality is with respect to his beliefs concerning Daisy. He always held on to the belief that she really did love him, that she only rejected him because...
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The Sun Also Rises
This is an interesting question, since Lady Brett Ashley spends most of the novel demonstrating that she does, indeed, lack self-respect. Most of what we see is evidence of this condition, however,...
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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
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
Basically, the phrase describes the generation that came to maturity during World War I and describes the cumulative effect of the new kind of warfare on that generation. Not only were people...
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The Sun Also Rises
If you’re doing a project on the novel, you might consider it as a chronicle of what has been called “the lost generation,” or the generation traumatized by the first World War. This...
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The Great Gatsby
The "lost generation" depicted in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises bears a great kinship with the characters from Fitzgerald's masterpiece. In each work a set of social values has fallen away,...
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The Great Gatsby
Both of these texts feature characters that have more money than they reasonably know what to do with and also no moral basis for their actions or decisions. As a result, the novels present these...
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The Sun Also Rises
The "dystopia" that is referred to in this question refers to the kind of destruction of belief in moral values and ideologies that occurred after the horrors of World War I, when so many of the...
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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
Robert Cohn is smug and self-satisfied, while also needing to prove himself. These traits stand nearly in direct opposition to those of Jake, the novel's anchor of moral perspective and judgement....
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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
As a member of one of the so called "Lost Generation," Jake is a character whose cynicism and disillusionment with life caused by the First World War causes him to lead a life that is characterised...
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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
You can argue that what drives Jake is the desire to prove he is still a man despite the wartime injury which has left him impotent. The first way he does this is by what Hemingway called 'grace...
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The Sun Also Rises
If Hemingway may be said to be representative of modern writers, and if The Sun Also Rises can be considered a representative example of modern fiction, then we may draw some inferences about how...
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The Sun Also Rises
Most of the characters in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises find themselves searching for the true meaning of life. The various American (and British) ex-patriots who have remained in Paris...
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The Sun Also Rises
Lady Brett Ashley in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is the corrupt English aristocratic woman of a certain period of American literature. She is almost defined by a certain predatory...
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The Sun Also Rises
The Lost Generation, as portrayed in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a group of writers, artists and intellectual born ca. 1900, who are living through the 1920s, a post-World War I...
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The Sun Also Rises
Much of Jake's personality and actions in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises are compensation for his impotence. His "code," a hypermasculine way of dealing with externalities through reduction...
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The Sun Also Rises
In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway is trying to, as it were, both have his cake and eat it. He is both showing himself (as Jake) as superior to his other characters in self-awareness of the...
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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
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
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
Jake’s statement here is evidence of the cynicism that he ultimately finds overwhelming. As a character, Jake is something of a “realist” from the start, yet there is a divide in him. He...
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The Sun Also Rises
(I have edited your query since only one question per posting is allowed at eNotes.) Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises tells the story about a group of Americans--members of The Lost...
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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
Normally, primary source is used to refer to a piece of text which offers the first thought on a specific subject. A secondary source, therefore, is a text which refers to the primary source. In...
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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
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
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
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, the first reference to Bill Gorton suggests that he will be arriving in Paris on an ocean liner. Jake Barnes receives a wire [that is, telegram]...
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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
Robert Cohn serves a number of important functions in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, including the following: He is the object of derision by many of the other characters, and thus he...