Alcohol Consumption in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Lost Decade"

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"The Lost Generation," and being "lost" has something to do with their lost sense of reality. Like Barnes, his expatriate acquaintances are often drunk throughout the duration of the story. The characters who were involved in the war resort to drinking in order to escape from reality, and they are unable to cope with what the war has done to their lives (Pfeifer). Therefore, alcohol consumption hinders their sense of reality.
The group is always drinking when they are around each other. Whenever Jacob Barnes meets up with another character, the setting is in a venue that serves alcohol. If they find themselves in a situation where there is no access to alcohol, the mood changes in a negative way until they get their hands on a drink again (Ericson). The emphasis on alcohol is what the expatriates have in common and drinking is what they do together (Ericson). For the expatriates, drinking is a thing they like to do together because it helps take their minds off the past.
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