The novel opens with an epigraph by Gertrude Stein: "You are all a lost generation." This refers both to those who lost their lives in the First World War, and also to those who lost their moral and spiritual compass. ... "Lost Generation" - the term that emerged in the period between the two Wars (the First and the Second World Wars) and referring/ed to young soldiers who fought between 1914 and 1918 , and who returned home mentally or physically disabled" (Sarason, 1972: 3) The brightest representative of the "Lost Generation" the great Ernest Hemingway popularized this term in his autobio...

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Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley through their adventures from Paris, France to Pamplona, Spain for the annual bull-running festival. Hemingway writes of the Lost Generation during post-World War I life. ... An analysis of symbolism that Hemingway uses in The Sun Also Rises reveals the depth of the novel, while expressing the age of bankruptcy, illusions, and unrealized love. ... Both water and bulls are also symbolic and bring depth to the Lost Generation that Hemingway created with this novel. ... The Sun Also Rises captures a peak...

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("What is the Lost Generation?... For example, when Robert Cohn insults him, he throws a punch- ("Analysis of the Sun Also Rises). ... Linda Wagner, a critic noticed that in Hemingway's novel, The Sun also Rises, his characters relate to the Lost Generation by virtue that they "are usually violent. ... 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. ... This was also a very apparent attribute of those who lived in the Lost Generation. ...

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In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the narrator, Jake Barnes, describes Robert Cohn, a rich Jew who graduated from Princeton with low self-esteem, an unsuccessful marriage, and a vanished inheritance. ... The Sun Also Rises documents the people who came to be known as the "Lost Generation," a generation of broken dreams and destroyed naivete emerged from the World War I with an outlook blemished by bitterness and aimlessness. Jake and his companions begin to spend their time drinking and partying away their defeats, exemplifying a generation physically and emotionally wounded from...

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The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway is a classic novel, telling the story of Americans in Europe in the early nineteen-twenties. The characters who are showcased in the this story are part of the Lost Generation, the generation who lived through the horrors of World War I, called the Great War in that time period. Many of them, such as the characters in The Sun Also Rises, developed a cynical attitude towards American life and chose to immigrate to Europe. ... Not unlike most of the characters of The Sun Also Rises, Robert experienced harsh alienation from society, in his case, anti-Semitism. ....

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The ill effects of war are shown by the veteran and civilian character contrast in "The Sun Also Rises." ... There is substance abuse and travel in almost every page of "The Sun Also Rises." ... The veteran characters are set apart from the non-veteran because they belong to the lost generation. ... Also, the lost generation was left morally bankrupt with only alcohol and promiscuity as comfort. ... The Sun Also Rises demonstrates the destructive effects war can have on a person. ...

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Naturalism Essay: The Sun Also Rises vs. ... Survivors during this time period were labeled,The Lost Generation.? ... That year, The Sun Also Rises, became one of his best works. ... In The Sun Also Rises, love becomes the fate that turns ugly. ... Note that this break down of societal structure demonstrated with this quote is just like in The Sun Also Rises. ...

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Throughout Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, a variety of rousing character details and setting descriptions reveal the novel's success of cultivating both disquietude and pleasure within the reader of the text. ... For the duration of each bullfight that Hemingway eloquently illustrates throughout The Sun Also Rises, the reader understands that the matador confronts death and may very likely not exit the ring a living man. ... The obscure nature of Lady Brett Ashley's character, which Hemingway develops throughout the course of The Sun Also Rises, provides the reader with ...

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The novel The Sun Also Rises is written into three parts. ... If the story did not take place during the time of "the lost generation- then the story would not at all be based on the aimlessness of that specific generation. ... Jake is an aimless and bitter man and is a true image of "the lost generation."" ... The Sun Also Rises is a typical Hemingway novel. ... The Sun Also Rises is not an exception. ...

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway is a book that explores the lives of some people of the "lost generation." ... By the end of The Sun Also Rises, Jake reached a personal resolution that plagued him throughout the book about how his injury would not be the only reason why an intimate relationship between him and Brett would never be able to succeed. ... Brett makes sure not only to makes her concerns the primary focus but also to make them Jakes. ...

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The title, "the Sun Also Rises" gives a meaning, that everything even the sun must go on, no mater what. ... The fact that Hemingway is a lost generation character, is reflected in the way must of his characters feel. They don't have any future plan, they forget about their families, don't care about the money, or even their jobs; they have no perception of what they really wanted, so all of them were lost. ...

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After World War I, the "Lost Generation" commiserated with one another about the struggles of finding their identity. Throughout The Sun Also Rises, author Ernest Hemingway depicts his characters as lost souls not in search of where they want to go and who they want to be. Even though this generation is perceived as one that has no values or concerns in their life, Jake Barnes, along with the other characters in the novel, does have the constant urge to fit the male stereotype. ... Then after a while it was better and I lay in bed- (Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 39). ... Jake also drinks ...

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James Carson, from "The Story of One White Woman,"" and Jake Barnes, from The Sun Also Rises, fail to embody the traditional characteristics of masculinity. ... Despite the seemingly impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. ... Jake Barnes, the narrator from The Sun Also Rises, lacks masculinity just...

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Lost Generation A group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; are called the "Lost Generation Writers". ... His story collection, In Our Time, 1925 was followed by the novel The Sun Also Rises 1926. ... His neck is wrinkled from the sun, and his hands bear the scars of many fishing battles; only his blue eyes remain bright and cheerful. ... The boy is devoted to the old man, bringing him coffee and making sure that he has something to eat; he also helps him with his fishing gear. ... He also prays to God for help several times ...

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One of the greatest of these modern authors is Ernest Hemmingway, he forged a place in history with works such as The Sun Also Rises. written in a time where these modern artists felt detached and hurt by the society which had seemingly abandoned them. ... It examined the social issues of a "lost generation" those without a cause or combining force. ... However it shows Jake's character as one of the lost generation. ... After the war, the "lost generation" lost their traditional values. ... The discontent of the "lost generation" is psychological, not geographic. ...

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One such book/title is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. ... To a certain degree his whole generation lost something in the war. ... The sun is setting on the lost generation; their best days have passed them by. ... The Sun Also Rises is about cycles. ... Works Cited Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises. ...

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The Sun Also Rises Lack of Heroes In most novels we see protagonists and antagonists, those that strive for a good common goal, and then those that serve no purpose but to get in the way of that goal. ... But in Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises, there appears not to be anyone that rises above the rest. ... Although it is true that Bill has his problems, he still knows when to show people respect and also when to shut his mouth. ... Secondly, he follows Brett around like a lost puppy and because of this, loses a lot of respect an...

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First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises concerns a group of American living in Europe during the 1920s. ... Jake also tells us that he was wounded in World War I, and that his injury has left him in the supremely frustrating condition of being impotent without diminishing his sexual desire. Jake brings the tale into the present night at the Café Napolitan, a popular haunt of the "lost generation" and the avant garde in the Left Bank district of Paris. ...

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The Sun Also Rises was Hemingway's expression of his own life. ... The Sun Also Rises encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, know as the Lost Generation. ... "The Sun Also Rises is the book that established Hemingway as a literary force and it introduced the world to the Lost Generation" (Wilson 5). ... The only thing Hemingway thought about was writing and finishing The Sun Also Rises. ... One of the main themes of The Sun Also Rises is impotence. ...

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Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises captures the roots of his talents and the start of controversy. ... In 1926 Hemingway published his second novel entitled The Sun Also Rises. ... It was in The Sun Also Rises that Hemingway first introduced us to "The Iceberg Principle." ... In The Sun Also Rises he defends Jake well and the reader involuntarily gives him their sympathy. ... In The Sun Also Rises the story ends having gone nowhere. ...

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This point is evident in some of his most famous works that helped him to gain acclaimed success: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... The Sun Also Rises, one of Hemingway's most celebrated novels, shows why Hemingway stood out among the writers of his time. Jake Barnes, the main character that represents Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, is both "disillusioned and emasculated as a result of the war" (Schafer 1). ... In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway calls the post World War I generation the "Lost Generation" (The Sun Also Rises??). ... Barnes emotional...

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"The Sun Also Rises,"" by Ernest Hemingway, does not pose any questions at the beginning of the novel. It starts as a story about the Lost Generation and their lives, but no questions. ... Pedro shows the most amount of courage out of all the characters in "The Sun Also Rises."" ... It shows how different and unhappy the Lost Generation was from other parts of the world. ... Hemingway probably only did this though to keep the readers attention and to prove a point; that the Lost Generation was in the end, the lost generation. ...

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In Ernest Hemingway's, "The Sun Also Rises," the majority of the central characters are a part of the "lost generation." ... Several characters in The Sun Also Rises have struggled with moral and psychological aimlessness as they searched for the meaning of life in a changed world. ... Traditional values that focused on God, love, and manhood dissolved, leaving those of the Lost Generation adrift. ... Traveling, like alcohol, is another means of escape for the characters of The Sun Also Rises. ... " (120) As in "The Sun Also Rises," "A Well Lighted Place" also is set ...

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