Main Character At so many colliding moments, Jake Barnes was such an anti-hero. He was not cruel; he was not spiteful. But he was so unbelievably "lost,"" an expatriate who had lost his "touch with the soil."" There was no depth to what he did. Like a Bohemian, he imbibed alcohol and caroused his nights away. Jake, poor man, was impotent, and his lifestyle, full of inane chatter on war and women, full of crowded dances and bars and ritually stunning fiestas, reflected this. But despite this, despite his being a half-man living a half-life, he endeavored to live gracefully. He held together his...

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... who had many conversations with him about homosexuality, seemed to think he was hiding something about himself. This belief has developed into a critical analysis that Hemingway must have been repressing his own homosexuality because of the amount of time he spent abusing other people. His favorite insults for other men were accusations of impotence, sterility, and homosexuality. Hemingway himself ... more negative light. There are several homosexual characters in Hemingway's fiction; there are also clear homophobes. Jake Barnes, the castrated heterosexual narrator of The Sun Also Rises, ...

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• Grade Level: High School