THE SUN ALSO RISESE R N E S T H E M I N G W A Y

Presented by Tam Le

Guided by Professor Sutliff

Course: Eng 112 – S3

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The Sun Also Rises was written in 1926 by Ernest

Hemingway when he worked as a correspondent in Paris.

Hemingway was an American author and journalist

The Sun Also Rises was his first novel

Its creation was influenced by the “Lost Generation”

The "Lost Generation" defines a sense of moral loss or

aimlessness apparent in literary figures during the 1920s

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Thesis statement: The two main characters Jake and Brett are depicted as

typical representatives of those who possess a great deal of power but use

it with generosity and tolerance toward others while experiencing both

personal and spiritual alienation, resulting in their desire to escape from

reality.

The novel portrays the images of Jake and Brett who exert a great deal of influence over each other and over others as well, but they control with generosity and tolerance, not with cruelty.

The first person controlled that we are able to see easily is Robert

Cohn and the controller is Brett.

Another place for Brett to rule is Mike Campbell who is a

bankrupt alcoholic.

Another person who is also under Brett’s domination is Count

Mippipopolous.

Brett’s final subject in the novel is the young matador, Pedro

Romero, who is fifteen years less than her

The novel portrays the images of Jake and Brett who exert a great deal of influence over each other and over others as well, but they control with generosity and tolerance, not with cruelty.

Jake is ruled by Brett, but he is also the only one in the novel who

truly imposes his control back over her

Jake is always a solid shoulder for Brett to lean her head against

anytime she feels tired and needs someone to talk with.

The way Jake exerts his influence over Brett is with generosity

and tolerance.

He is willing to face the anger of his friends, the contempt of the

Montana hotel owner, and the possible destruction of the young

bullfighter, to arrange Brett’s meeting with Romero.

The novel portrays the images of Jake and Brett who

exert a great deal of influence over each other and over

others as well, but they control with generosity and

tolerance, not with cruelty.

Brett behaves towards other characters in the same way as Jake

does to her.

She rejects Robert Cohn not to take up with another man, but rather

because she thinks he is not manly enough

Mike, someone to travel with who was in worse shape than herself

and thus in no position to judge her.

Jake, true affection and understanding, as well as staunch support

without sexual claims

Brett also decides not to sleep with and leave the Count regardless of

the big amount of money he is able to offer her.

She sends Romero away not to ruin his life.

Jake and Brett are trapped within the circle of both

personal and spiritual alienation.

personal alienation.

They both are impotent of love.

Jake’s alienation results from his physical injury in the war

Brett’s alienation originates from her unsatisfied quest for

love.

Barnes lacks the power to control love’s strength and durability.

Brett has a lot of affairs and ignores the fact that she is engaged.

Their frustrated love serves as the basis for the estrangement

they both experience.

Jake and Brett are trapped within the circle of both

personal and spiritual alienation.

Spiritual alienation.

Jake and Brett both are alienated from religion and from God

Jake expresses his unwillingness to accept his disconnection

from God and his religion does not seem to matter much in his

life.

“I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a

rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do

about it, at least for a while ... I only wished I felt religious

and maybe I would the next time” (Hemingway 195)

Brett is absolutely not a religious person

• it only makes her “damned nervous,” since it never does

her any good (Hemingway 195)

• “I’m damned bad for a religious atmosphere” (Hemingway

195)

What is the result of their alienation?

The personal and spiritual alienation, in turn,

constitutes itself as an invisible force pushing Jake

and Brett toward a desire to remove themselves from

reality.

Their wish to escape from miserable reality is

inevitably a sequential consequence of their

incapability to deal with what they have been faced

with.

Two way of getting themselves out of the shallow

world.

Immersing in the unconscious pleasure of alcoholic beverages.

Their daily lives are surrounded with wine and wine.

Each day becomes a replication of the day before

Going on trips to enjoy outside world.

They seem to be looking for a specific place where they feel

comfortable to settle themselves

their wish to do that does not indicate that they

surrender themselves to the reality but embodies

their thirst and fight for a better life.

Alpaslan Toker shares his idea that “The universal appeal of the

other characters in Hemingway's novel managed to reflect every sort of

person in the Lost Generation. They ranged from the broken exiles, who

had acknowledged their barren and meaningless lives to the expatriates

who had managed to recognize the moral and spiritual decay of society

but were determined not to surrender themselves to the shallow existence

that it presented” (30).

CONCLUSION

Although they possess power, generosity toward others, they both

experience personal and spiritual alienation, leading to their thirst to escape

from their own shallow world.

Those characteristics themselves of the two main characters exert their

influence over the whole theme and also create very much of the meaning

of the story

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