... 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, is severely affronted when a group of homosexual men clusters around the woman he desires but cannot have. His first inclination is to attack the lot of them with his fists, but it is part of his heroic restraint ... representations are more or less negative, some virtually abusive. The strongest example of the messy hero can be found in Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises. Before World War I, the world ...

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... Hero always exhibits some form of a physical wound that serves as his tragic flaw and the weakness of his character. In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes is the character who maintains the typical Code Hero qualities; while Robert Cohn provides the antithesis of a Code Hero. Jake Barnes, the narrator and main character of The Sun Also Rises, is left impotent by an ambiguous accident during World War I. Jake's wound is ... the first of many code hero traits that he features. This physical wound, however, transcends into an ... ...

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