In “The Sun Also Rises” Hemingway introduces his novel with two quotes. The first is a quote from Gertrude Stein, a painter, poet, who was at the center of the social scene of American expatriates in the 1920s Paris. She identifies that Hemingway’s is “lost generation.” This term characterizes the emotional, moral and in many cases physical emptiness of the post-WWI generation, that witnessed the bloodiest and deadliest times known to man, to this point in history. This “lost generation” sought comfort in the decadent, carefree times of the roaring 1920s where alcohol was at the epicenter. The religious take-over of American politics resulting in prohibition directly conflicted with this leading many to escape physically as well as mentally.
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Once you had a drink all you had to say was ‘Well, I’ve got to get back and get off some cables,’ and it was done” (19). Moreover, Leland states, " Mastery over the elements, here, has more to do with economic agency and control over social relationships than with nature and survival" (Leland 2004 p.37), my reading of a "Sun Also Rises" I too agree with this statement. In Jake' world he replaces people with monetary value making them objects. Hemingway does in fact introduce this concept in the first chapter, when Jake talks about Robert Cohn. Jake getting rid of Robert is similar to Robert’s desire to leave Paris, believing being in a new surrounding he will escape his boredom. This mantra of busying themselves with avoiding life, rather they're pursuing it, the “lost generation’s” aimlessness, disenchantment with life. Work is not important, Jake states people in his profession “should never seem to be working” (19). Jake has an eye for detail in the world and his imagination. Also, Jake states “I have the rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends” (21). This comment not only shows his eye for detail but also foreshadows the impotence the war left him. It also re-enforces Jake’s habit of living vicariously …show more content…
Rather he is communicating an important narrative detail which invites the reader to reapprehend certain incidents at the beginning and disposes him to recognize certain evocations at the end” (Kerrigan 1974 p.88). The use of the word “funny” refers to both Jake’s wound and the Count’s wound; the reader can make the correlation: “There is indeed "something funny" about the Count that Brett would be in a position to learn” (Kerrigan 1974 p.88). The use of the word “funny”
Once you had a drink all you had to say was ‘Well, I’ve got to get back and get off some cables,’ and it was done” (19). Moreover, Leland states, " Mastery over the elements, here, has more to do with economic agency and control over social relationships than with nature and survival" (Leland 2004 p.37), my reading of a "Sun Also Rises" I too agree with this statement. In Jake' world he replaces people with monetary value making them objects. Hemingway does in fact introduce this concept in the first chapter, when Jake talks about Robert Cohn. Jake getting rid of Robert is similar to Robert’s desire to leave Paris, believing being in a new surrounding he will escape his boredom. This mantra of busying themselves with avoiding life, rather they're pursuing it, the “lost generation’s” aimlessness, disenchantment with life. Work is not important, Jake states people in his profession “should never seem to be working” (19). Jake has an eye for detail in the world and his imagination. Also, Jake states “I have the rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends” (21). This comment not only shows his eye for detail but also foreshadows the impotence the war left him. It also re-enforces Jake’s habit of living vicariously …show more content…
Rather he is communicating an important narrative detail which invites the reader to reapprehend certain incidents at the beginning and disposes him to recognize certain evocations at the end” (Kerrigan 1974 p.88). The use of the word “funny” refers to both Jake’s wound and the Count’s wound; the reader can make the correlation: “There is indeed "something funny" about the Count that Brett would be in a position to learn” (Kerrigan 1974 p.88). The use of the word “funny”