the literal sense are quite contrasting. It is difficult to constantly fit everyone into strict social roles such that individuals are supposed to carry themselves in a certain way throughout life depending on their gender. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, it is clear that there is a code for being a man, not just on the physical level but on emotional and psychological levels as well. Up until the First World War, soldiers were often romanticized as men full of courage, power and
This can 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