... represents Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, is both "disillusioned and emasculated as a result of the war" (Schafer 1). Jake Barnes searches for truth and meaning in life and war. Hemingway was also cynical and weakened after the war and searched for truth and meaning in both life and war. He directly relates Barnes" life to himself. In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway calls the post World War I generation the "Lost Generation" (The Sun Also Rises??). He writes, "The World War seemed ... to destroy for many the idea that if you acted properly good things would happen. But so many good youn...

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