The Sun Also Rises Questions and Answers
In The Sun Also Rises, what is the significance of the title?
What is the difference between bulls and steers in Chapter 13 of The Sun Also Rises? In Jake’s group, who are bulls and who are steers? And what does this conversation represent in the values and characters of the people of Hemingway’s time?
How long is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway?
What is the meaning of Jake's statement "enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it"? Why is Jake more interested in how, rather than why, one lives?
What are some themes in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises that reflect Hemingway's thinking?
In The Sun Also Rises, how is Jake's sexual impotence a metaphor for three characters' powerlessness in the novel?
Compare and contrast the three bullfighters in The Sun Also Rises.
Discuss this quotation from Chapter 2 of The Sun Also Rises: Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. How does this foreshadow Jake’s aficion values? Why does Jake feel life must be lived to the fullest? How does the “lost generation” fit into this attitude?
Compare Bill and Jake's comments on surroundings with Cohn's for appropriateness. How is this indicative of the way Robert and Jake approach life? How does this impact the deterioration of Jake and Robert's relationship?
Explain how Bill and Jake’s fishing trip is similar to a religious experience.
What is the relationship between Frances and Robert in Chapter 5-6 of The Sun Also Rises?
In The Sun Also Rises, how is Jake Barnes' wound symbolic of the American Dream?
In The Sun Also Rises, what does Romero give Brett before and after the bullfight?
How are women represented in The Sun Also Rises?
Summarize Mike's story about the medals in Chapter 13 of The Sun Also Rises. What does the incident demonstrate about Mike's character, and how is this incident representative of the “Lost Generation”?
In the novel The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway, Discuss Jake relationship with Brett, Robert and Bill.
How would one make a thesis statement about the escapism in The Sun Also Rises and how it's ineffective and just a temporary fix?
How would one make a thesis statement for alcohol abuse and alcoholism as compensation in The Sun Also Rises?
In The Sun Also Rises, what does Paris mean to Jake, Brett, and Robert?
How does The Sun Also Rises reflect modernism?
Contrast France and Spain. How does each represent a difference in values? What do the churches that are described have to do with those values? How does Jake’s statement, “I only wish I felt religious and maybe I would the next time” fit this?
Analyze gender roles in The Sun Also Rises.
How is the setting of The Sun Also Rises symbolic?
In chapter 19 of The Sun Also Rises, what are the reasons for Brett and Romero's breakup, and how does this show growth for Brett? What does the quote, “It’s sort of what we have instead of God,” mean?
Describe the ceremony before and during the final bullfight in The Sun Also Rises.
How would you describe the ceremony before and during the final bullfight? Why does Romero wait to kill the bull? What are examples of the traditions involved? How would you compare Romero's final fight with his fight with Robert?
How does Hemingway show that Jake is insecure about about his masculinity early in The Sun Also Rises?
What is the significance of the title of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, given its grounding in existentialist philosophy?
What is symbolic about fishing in Chapter 12 from The Sun Also Rises?
How does Hemingway use sport in The Sun Also Rises? How and why?
Is Jake a static or dynamic character in The Sun Also Rises?
What is the technique and structure of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises?
What is the seeking of pleasure in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway?
In Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, what are the elements of realism, naturalism, and modernism?
Contrast France and Spain in Chapters 10-11 of The Sun Also Rises.
Questions for chapter 17 Describe Jake’s awakening after Robert calls him a “pimp” and hits him. Why is the statement the truth? How does his walk show renewed sensations about life? What does the bath represent?
Is Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises his own version of "The Waste Land"?
In Chapter 12 of The Sun Also Rises, explain how Jake’s and Bill's fishing trip is similar to a religious experience.
Discuss the elements of Modernism, Realism, and Naturalism in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises.
In The Sun Also Rises, the cities Pamplona and Madrid mean different things to different characters. What do they mean to Jake, Brett, and Robert Cohn? What do these locations do for them?
Could you call The Sun Also Rises a satire?
How does Brett’s revelation about San Sebastian affect Jake in Chapter 9 of The Sun Also Rises? Why had she gone? What does this tell about Brett? How does this drive a deeper wedge between Robert and Jake?
Describe the scenes on the train. How does the “pilgrimage to Rome” of the Catholics on the train parallel to the pilgrimage of Jake, Bill, and Robert? What are they looking for? What is the relationship of Jake to the Catholic church?
What is the symbol of the Fisher King in Chapter 12 from The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway? What is its relation with The Wasteland by Eliot?
From Chapters 10-11 of The Sun Also Rises, compare Bill and Jake’s comments on surroundings with Cohn’s for appropriateness. How is this indicative of the way Robert and Jake approach life? How does this impact the deterioration of Jake and Robert’s relationship?
How is the theme of jealousy portrayed in The Sun Also Rises?
Compare The Sun Also Rises (fiction) to A Moveable Feast (nonfiction).
What are the roles and importance of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises?
Explain Jake’s statement, “Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.”
How does Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises explore themes of drinking, love, and identity?
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