... gratitude that man does "not have to kill the stars- signals a profound inner life of which the reader has only a mere glimpse. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) begins with an epigraph. This is significant to note. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American poet who was the center of a group of painters and expatriate writers living in Paris after World War ... ...

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... : lack of family, rootlessness, nihilism, and alienation, being from somewhere else and being cut off from the past. It is the cyclical nature of the novel, heralded in the second epigraph (from Ecclesiastics): "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever . . . The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down . . . All the rivers run into the ... ...

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