... of masculinity. Nevertheless, Jake fails to fulfill other requisites of the Hemingway man as he deviates from his own ethical standards. Still, Jake Barnes represents the best of the lost generation, the best that is lost. Barnes is the maimed knight of the lost. As Mark Spilka suggests, in his"The Death of Love in The Sun Also Rises," Barnes is uncomfortably similar to Cohn, the romantic knight in full flower; and he is sadly incapable ... of the self-sufficient manhood of Romero, the bullfighter, who has drawn the sportsman's independent contest to a point of steel ... ...

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... still have equally intense emotional bonds, as long as they remained nonsexual. An anxiety towards homosexuality and a feeling of inadequacy towards his own male character followed the soldier through peacetime. In a world changed forever, the male characters in Ernest Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, struggle to face their new role as a male, and prove to themselves and others that they are still masculine. Jake Barnes serves ... had to face society at large. A damaged masculinity was just one of the characteristics of the Lost Generation that caused a separation between them, and the ...

• Word Count: 2875
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School