Alcoholism In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises presents the life of various characters of the lost generation. So, fittingly there is a lot of alcohol in the book. In fact almost every character gets wasted at least once and are repeatedly called drunks. The excessive alcohol of the book is an allusion to the alcoholism of the roaring 20s as well as the lavish style. In additional, when Jake tells Cohn that only bull runners live their life to the fullest, he acts as a voice of reason, but ends up living it up at the fiesta anyways. This exposes major character development for the entire group of significant characters and emphasizes the lost generation’s policy of avoidance and not thinking logically.
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