Theme Of Love In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

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What is love? American Heritage Dictionary prime definition of love is as follows: “A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.” Followers of the Lord can project the belief that their mighty God is love. A seventeen year old female does not even comprehend all the variables that come with love to gather a proper definition of love. In the novel, The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway the theme of love is a central topic with different viewpoints, all of which are not the typical overly romanticise form; Hemingway does not include a happily ever after or a fairy tale wedding. Instead Hemingway raises the question of “what is love” but also the question of “does love have …show more content…

During his service in the war, Jake was permanently injured and is no longer able to participate in sexual relations. This is the prominent reason why Brett will not stay with him. When Jake and Brett had the following conversation,
‘“Couldn’t we live together, Brett? Couldn’t we just live together?’
‘I don’t think so. I’d just tromper you with everybody. You couldn’t stand it.’
‘I stand it now’”(62), Jake so desperately want to have some form of connection with Brett but Brett knows it would only hurt him. Through Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises we see how love was portrayed after World War I and how the lost generation dealt with as strong as emotion as love. Love does not come without questions, Jake and Brett’s relationship raises the question, ‘Can one have love without having sex? While Cohn’s relationship with his woman makes the readers wonder, ‘Can you be in love with an idea more than a person?’ Most importantly, can love, a single emotion, fill a void that many in this time period had? Certainly, a life without love would be a lost life or shall we say a lost

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