blind themselves to their self-inflicted decay, characteristic of many people in the “Roaring Twenties”. Portrayed in two key literary classics of the era, the role of love in F. Scott-Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises reveals the damage that blind zealousness can cause when stemming from pain and delusion. The male protagonists in both novels suffer the agony of unrequited
To analyze the characters, help was found when reading articles from three scholars as well as reading a casebook on Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises. The first article which helped with analyzing the characters is Justin Mellette’s article called ‘Floating I saw only the sky’: leisure and self-fulfillment in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises written in 2014. The article focuses mostly on Jake Barnes and how much the role of leisure activity plays in his development throughout the book. He is being compared
Inner convictions and personal experiences shape a person’s character, and the result is reflected in his behavior. In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway introduces Jake Barnes as the main character who confesses that he is a Catholic believer and a war survivor. His friends with whom he associates subject Jake to conflicting inner emotions. Robert Cohn and Michael Campbell strive for the love of Lady Brett Ashley, the only woman Jake has ever loved. Through a series of events, Jake Barnes juggles
Chapter 17 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway stands out to be the most violent chapter in the novel. The chapter begins with Bill and Mike being kicked out of a bar. Both men were with a young lady named Edna, who is a friend of Bill. Robert Cohn shows up at the same bar as the others and Cohn’s mood is very agitated and he demands to know where Lady Brett Ashley is but, Jake will not tell him. Cohn ends the conversation by calling Jake “a damned pimp” (Hemingway 193). Jake becomes furious