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Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises - College Essay

Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises

In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes a couple who
share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other. This story
takes place immediately after World War I, a time of great hardship. This
hardship results in a digression of values both morally and socially. The
love that Brett and Jake share is symbolic of the general decline in
values in that they tolerate behaviors in one another that would have been
previously considered unacceptable.
It is clear that Lady Brett Ashley is anything but a lady. She is kind
and sweet but extremely vulnerable to the charm that various men in her
life seem to smother her with. Brett is not happy with her life or ...

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she does. Jake’s willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s
promiscuity and infidelity is an indication of the skewed values of the
age. It was an ³anything goes² era right after the first war, and Jake¹s
message to Brett seems to be the same: anything goes as long as you
eventually come back to me.
Jake is forced to accept living in this seemingly terrible way for more
than one reason. He a weak person socially, but he is also physically
disabled because of an injury that he suffered during the war. He suffered
an injury that caused him to be castrated. The first hint of this is when
he says to Georgeette ³I was hurt in the war (24) in refrence to why they
can not have physical realtions. This injury is one that makes him
insecure, but worse than that, it allows Brett to have almost complete
control over him. Jake and Brett need each other emotionally, but Brett
feels that she needs more. As a result Jake is force to give her up.
Jake¹s feelings toward his friend ...

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Added: 5/13/2005 03:30:32 PM
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