Hemingway didn’t intend to ignore the society through his concentrating on the individual in his journey to create values but his awareness to the importance of the battle of the self which leads to the achievements of valid and meaningful relationships among society. For instance, Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises represented the American soldiers after World War I who were suffering not much by the war itself as by the attitude of other Americans toward the war and its consequences. The protagonist, in Hemingway’s major novels searches to understand the nature of war, love and the society that surrounds him. The characters and situations that Hemingway used in his writings are usually violent which appeared in so many kinds of worlds
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He shared with other novelists the sense of wound, diminishment, the sense of mourning for the fallen worlds and the loss of the self and values; For instance, Caddy’s loss of innocence in The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner, the Gatsby’s pre-war romantic dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald or Jake’s impotence in The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner intended not just to express the trauma of wounds but also with works such as The Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, and The Great Gatsby, and The Sound and Fury, the three writers showed their frustrated desires to serve in the American military’s colossal war and they explored the mobilization for World War I. Many American writers shared Hemingway his sense of revealing the violence of World War I and it’s brutality, they all experienced the sense of disillusionment and depicted in their works the sufferings of the individual with their tool of using irony to depict inner turmoil, conflict, cynicism and the past. Those writers are called, “The Lost Generation” and this name was given to Sinclair Lewis, E.E Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, John Does Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Gould Cozzens and William
He shared with other novelists the sense of wound, diminishment, the sense of mourning for the fallen worlds and the loss of the self and values; For instance, Caddy’s loss of innocence in The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner, the Gatsby’s pre-war romantic dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald or Jake’s impotence in The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner intended not just to express the trauma of wounds but also with works such as The Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, and The Great Gatsby, and The Sound and Fury, the three writers showed their frustrated desires to serve in the American military’s colossal war and they explored the mobilization for World War I. Many American writers shared Hemingway his sense of revealing the violence of World War I and it’s brutality, they all experienced the sense of disillusionment and depicted in their works the sufferings of the individual with their tool of using irony to depict inner turmoil, conflict, cynicism and the past. Those writers are called, “The Lost Generation” and this name was given to Sinclair Lewis, E.E Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, John Does Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Gould Cozzens and William