In Hemingway’s novel, The Sun also Rises, the main character, Jake Barnes, is an example of someone who would have been caught up in the Lost Generation. He was a solider in the war that was physically wounded, and emotionally sustained by his wound. He is deeply in love with a woman, Lady Brett Ashley, who in turn loves him but they can not be together:

He thought about alone in Constantinople that time, having quarreled in Paris before he had gone out. He had whored the whole time and then, when that was over, and he had failed to kill his loneliness, but only made it worse, he had written her, the first one, that one who left him, a letter telling her how he had never been about to kill it”(Hemingway 15).

Brett’s attempts to find comfort in Jake also fail when she knows she can never be with him because of his wound from the war. She goes elsewhere to try to find fulfillment and happiness. She leaves to go to the fiesta with her fiancé, Mike and ends up leaving him. “‘How’s your boyfriend?’ Mike asked. He had not listened to anything that Brett had said. ‘Brett’s got a bull-fighter,’ said. ‘She had a Jew named Cohn, but he turned out badly.’” (Hemingway 210) She turns to one man and when she ends up empty handed she goes onto the next. Brett’s personality is such that it is almost impossible for her to be content, she is unable to settle down and be committed to one thing. She doesn’t have hardly any

responsibilities at all, she doesn’t have a job, a family, and she makes her life as simple as she can so she can avoid the responsibilities of exerting effort to find true fulfillment. This was also a very apparent attribute of those who lived in the Lost Generation. Monahan continues on to say that “Hemmingway’s objective characters innate instincts, necessary for moving within a rigid social structure, are deadened by World War I, and adapting themselves to the postwar climate only serves to hinder them in the quest for finding meaning in their lives” (“The Sun Also Rises Analysis”).

When searching for comfort and happiness in material things, one only finds emptiness, just as with the Lost Generation. Placing one’s values and trust in worldly things that in the end aren’t going to be fulfilling, one must experience true fulfillment from the inside, instead of settling for material things on the outside. One shouldn’t need to by pleasure or shop for love in order to make them happy. Pleasure comes from hard work, it is the feeling after one has worked hard

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