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Someone asked Georgette to dance, and I went over The Sun Also Rises is an easy, smooth read that every now and then catches you unawares. Hemingway's text in his first serious novel is as finely honed as in his first collection of stories, In Our Time, but appears deceptively offhand as delivered by Jake Barnes in the first person, easing some of the perceived quirkiness of the early stories. By which I do not mean the prose is pretty. The struggle for honour in the bullfighting ring itself. Or in the risking of life in the running of the bulls or Someone like me, who is usually bored to death by this so-called sport, canįind entrancing. Such as theĮnjoyment of nature, as seen during a fishing expedition that even Still, one gets the idea Hemingway saw salvation in the characters' return to elemental experiences. Readers' views that this was indeed a lost generation. However, the jaded heavy-drinking characters with their sardonic dialogue and their search for distraction have tended to reinforce As indicated in the quotation from Ecclesiastes which gives theīook its title, The Sun Also Rises is meant-at least in part-to answer Stein. Part of the 'lost generation', so dubbed by Gertrude Stein. The hero Jake Barnes is a foreign correspondent in Paris after the First World War, Watches Brett Ashley attract and destroy other men. He still has desire though and he quietly suffers as he The war, a tragedy that prevents him and the woman who loves him from It's an irony that the first successful novel by the writer often accused of being mindlesslyīallsy features a hero without a penis.

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