World War 1 was a dirty, bone shuttering war, which left its surviving victims directionless, dissatisfied, and a lost grip on reality. In Hemingway’s, The Sun Also Rises, this social collapse is illustrated in the lives of the narrator: Jake Barnes, and the other minor characters; Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell, and Brett Ashley. The world proceeding the post-war era lives of these plotted characters, illustrated in Hemingway’s novel, demonstrates this lost reality which effected society with a healthy confusion. This healthy confusion consisted of stressed and abstract communication, the overall behavior of the characters with and without relation to World War 1, and the philosophy behind Hemingway’s disillusion that is conveyed in relation to
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Hemingway had served in World War 1 as an ambulance driver. He had been wounded in combat, where the shrapnel from the explosion can be found in the John F. Kennedy Presidential library (Putnam). “Had the enemy mortar attack been more successful that fateful night, the world may never have known one of the greatest writers of the 20th century” (Putman). It has been said that Ernest Hemingway has written with association to war more than any other American author (Putman). In The Sun Also Rises, it’s clear to recognize his philosophy and tying backdrop to his experiences with war. Hemingway has had a powerful, firsthand experience to War World 1. Hemingway said, “when [men] go to war as a boy [they] have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not [them] . . . then when [they] are badly wounded the first time [they] lose that illusion and [they] know it can happen to [them]” (Putnam). In The Sun Also Rises, it can be recognized that Jake went through this experience and experienced all the pains that the author felt. While recuperating, Hemingway falls in love with Agnes Von Kurowsky. Similarly, Jake has a similar experience with Brett, but finds himself mixed between a healthy confusion of being home, yet still lost from the war, just has Hemingway experienced. Hemingway married and remarried several times and had many …show more content…
The characters; Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell, and Brett Ashley emulate partly a fictional biography of Hemingway and his life experiences. The healthy confusion of The Sun Also Rises, was expressed through key elements such as; the lack of communication between characters and situations, the behavioral actions of the characters relationships amongst each other, and the philosophy and connection with Hemingway, essentially acting as fictional biography of healthy
Hemingway had served in World War 1 as an ambulance driver. He had been wounded in combat, where the shrapnel from the explosion can be found in the John F. Kennedy Presidential library (Putnam). “Had the enemy mortar attack been more successful that fateful night, the world may never have known one of the greatest writers of the 20th century” (Putman). It has been said that Ernest Hemingway has written with association to war more than any other American author (Putman). In The Sun Also Rises, it’s clear to recognize his philosophy and tying backdrop to his experiences with war. Hemingway has had a powerful, firsthand experience to War World 1. Hemingway said, “when [men] go to war as a boy [they] have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not [them] . . . then when [they] are badly wounded the first time [they] lose that illusion and [they] know it can happen to [them]” (Putnam). In The Sun Also Rises, it can be recognized that Jake went through this experience and experienced all the pains that the author felt. While recuperating, Hemingway falls in love with Agnes Von Kurowsky. Similarly, Jake has a similar experience with Brett, but finds himself mixed between a healthy confusion of being home, yet still lost from the war, just has Hemingway experienced. Hemingway married and remarried several times and had many …show more content…
The characters; Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell, and Brett Ashley emulate partly a fictional biography of Hemingway and his life experiences. The healthy confusion of The Sun Also Rises, was expressed through key elements such as; the lack of communication between characters and situations, the behavioral actions of the characters relationships amongst each other, and the philosophy and connection with Hemingway, essentially acting as fictional biography of healthy