The Sun Also Rises Lost Generation

In the novel The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, there a various amounts of ideas in which Hemingway displays the ideas of a sprigs person not showing that they do in fact need love. One example of that person is Jake. Gertrude Stein told a specific quote to Hemingway and it said "You are all a lost generation." Also, the people in connection to the lost generation can be said to not believe in being committed to a person. The lost generation is was said to be "the post-World War I generation, but specifically a group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and establish their literary reputations in the 1920s" (Henry). Within the chapters of The Sun Also Rises, Jake has had some love connections with women in Paris. One example of a person Jake has a specific connection with was Georgette. Georgette was a women he met in Paris and she was hired by him to play in a joke he was creating for his friends. This specific woman shows how Jake is not into being emotionally connected to a woman. Jake says “She cuddled against me and I put my arm around her. She looked up to …show more content…
Georgette is someone who is being used for different acts of sexual desires. She is also known as being a prostitute in Paris, which would explain why the group of guys Brett was with all wanted to take turns dancing with her. Jake says “One of them saw Georgette and said: “I do declare. There is an actual harlot. I’m going to dance with her, Lett. You watch me”” (28). Then Jake continues and says “When I came back to the Bal there was a crowd on the floor and Georgette was dancing with the tall blond youth” (28). Due to Georgette being a woman that everyone man would want to spend time with and he knows that, I can possibly be a reason in which he does not want to become committed to because he knows she will not be committed to their relationship. Also, Jake leaves the party with another woman,