In the work of Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, the agonies of the generation that came after World War I, known as the "lost generation", are presented in different perspectives because of the variety of problems of the characters. The novel talks about a group of young people, mostly American that reside in Paris, who decide to travel to Navarra to fish, know the San Fermin festival and to attend bull fights. Two writers, a journalist, an English lady, and a ruined aristocrat establish a set of relationships and rivalry that reach its peak in the festive atmosphere. As the Parisian scene overshadows the story in an air of pathetic nonsense, the background of the party and bulls brings tragedy and transcendence. And is that all the characters
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He is the true portrait of a person marked by the war, not only mentally, but also physically. Because of his injury and the tragedies he saw in the war he lost his faith in God and has different morals and he shows them in the way he relates to other people and deals with his own problems. He is the only one among his group of friends that does not settle for the inactivity, but instead he is responsible for his work giving him a sense of compromise and duty. Hemingway depicts him as a war hero who was stripped of the most important thing in a man while he was fighting for his side. In the story he is seen as a real man that women want, but they cannot have and that men admire, but do not wish to be him. The fact that his mysterious war wound makes him impotent for sexual intercourse and therefore not being able to satisfy a woman transforms him into a unwelcome person in the society and even he questions his place in this world. In one part of the story, the Colonel tells Jake, "You, a foreigner, an Englishman... have given more than your life" (31), referring in an ironic way that his wound is worse than being dead, because for some people he is no longer considered a man. Although he seems to ignore the fact that people make jokes about his condition and tries to live his life making the best of a bad situation, on the inside he feels deep anger and shame of himself. Thanks to his fondness for
He is the true portrait of a person marked by the war, not only mentally, but also physically. Because of his injury and the tragedies he saw in the war he lost his faith in God and has different morals and he shows them in the way he relates to other people and deals with his own problems. He is the only one among his group of friends that does not settle for the inactivity, but instead he is responsible for his work giving him a sense of compromise and duty. Hemingway depicts him as a war hero who was stripped of the most important thing in a man while he was fighting for his side. In the story he is seen as a real man that women want, but they cannot have and that men admire, but do not wish to be him. The fact that his mysterious war wound makes him impotent for sexual intercourse and therefore not being able to satisfy a woman transforms him into a unwelcome person in the society and even he questions his place in this world. In one part of the story, the Colonel tells Jake, "You, a foreigner, an Englishman... have given more than your life" (31), referring in an ironic way that his wound is worse than being dead, because for some people he is no longer considered a man. Although he seems to ignore the fact that people make jokes about his condition and tries to live his life making the best of a bad situation, on the inside he feels deep anger and shame of himself. Thanks to his fondness for