The Sun Also Rises

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“Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises” from the American Ernest Hemingway takes the reader in an after World War One Europe. More precisely this novel is based on men and women that experienced this war, with all its pains, changes and consequences. Hemingway's narrator , Jack Barnes, is an American journalist who suffers a war-wound that leads him to an emotional wound. Through the novel division in three books, the reader can see an evolution in Jake's behaviour. He goes from a desperate wounded man living an expatriate life in Paris to a much stronger and mature Jake by the time the Fiesta ends. The first book starts with a few contextual information marking the time and the location, who are the characters and their relationship and where this story takes place. The reader understand that the narrator is Jake, because of the “I” form, he depicts the portrait of a friend, Robert Cohn, who was a boxer for Princeton under coach Spider Kelly's era in the early 20th century. The next pages revolves around Cohn and Jake's friendship and tensions which bring to Jake's first mention of bullfighting: “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters” (Hemingway 9). With this sentence Jake enlightens a distinction between men, some lives their life fully like bullfighters when others do not. Because of his impotence and mainly because of its emotional complication Jake feels like he is belonging to the second class. Bullfighters are the archetypes of masculinity in Jake's mind this is why he uses them as a reference, but also why he enjoys bullfighting so much, they allow him to reconnect with his masculinity. In the first book, Jake's masculinity is weakened by his love for Brett. They are involved in a one way relationship whi... ... middle of paper ... ... the one wounded when he is definitely over. This is shown in the taxi ride in Madrid when she tries one more time to make him fall under her power by reminding him of her potential relationship, his only answer is ironic and detached “Yes, [I said] Isn't it pretty to think so?”. Showing his disinterest for her which marks the final overcome of his loss. Hemingway's novel contains a morale for everyone that had or will suffer from either a physical wound, like Jake, or from an emotional wound such as Brett that nothing is ever unchangeable. The title strengthens this idea of changeability and evolution, if you believe in yourself and in what surrounds you, such as your passions, your friends, you can overcome every wound, even the one so personal and so horrible that you can not even mention it. Like Jake's impotence because after the Fiesta, the sun always rises.

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