The Sun Also Rises
Amanda Marcacci
Mrs. Brady
AP Literature
The Sun Also Rises Opening
In Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", Hemingway uses first person point of view through Jake to show different aspects, relationships, and thoughts he has regarding characters throughout the story. One of the most prominent themes throughout the novel is how it was drastically shaped through World War I and how many of the characters' personalities, thoughts, and interactions were ultimately shaped through the usage of the war. Like Hemingway himself, characters such as Jake, Brett, and Cohn's lives revolved around this uneventful frenzy of alcohol, parties, lies, and drama. While the war is sometimes not directly stated to be the cause of the main character's …show more content…
While an inferiority complex can definitely held lead a man to being aggravated, much of Cohn's life is lead by doing things he disliked - something I feel as if many individuals did during the early 1900's. From page one of the novel, the reader instantly could tell that most emotions are negative throughout the book and Jake's feelings for …show more content…
Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless." Ugh, come on, does this quote even need to be explained to prove the point I'm trying to make here? Jake literally gets drunk so that he can intentionally be careless. These characters actually enjoy being intoxicated simply because they're so fed up with actually living. It's sort of sad the more you think about it.
"Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people." This quote can be analyzed quite a bit. While Jake is drunk, once again, it's as if he actually uses it as a scapegoat out of his normal life. HIs friends "seemed" like nice people, and that's an emotion Jake would like to feel for them, but he knows very well he can't feel that way when he's sober. Being sober for him and his friends simply isn't fun enough.
"I was very angry. Somehow they always made me angry. I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure." This quote doesn't necessarily follow the existential pattern like the rest of the quotes, but this quote just made me really see how much of an angry person Jake is. And the only time he is a little tolerable when he's drunk… I can't stress that point
Mrs. Brady
AP Literature
The Sun Also Rises Opening
In Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", Hemingway uses first person point of view through Jake to show different aspects, relationships, and thoughts he has regarding characters throughout the story. One of the most prominent themes throughout the novel is how it was drastically shaped through World War I and how many of the characters' personalities, thoughts, and interactions were ultimately shaped through the usage of the war. Like Hemingway himself, characters such as Jake, Brett, and Cohn's lives revolved around this uneventful frenzy of alcohol, parties, lies, and drama. While the war is sometimes not directly stated to be the cause of the main character's …show more content…
While an inferiority complex can definitely held lead a man to being aggravated, much of Cohn's life is lead by doing things he disliked - something I feel as if many individuals did during the early 1900's. From page one of the novel, the reader instantly could tell that most emotions are negative throughout the book and Jake's feelings for …show more content…
Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless." Ugh, come on, does this quote even need to be explained to prove the point I'm trying to make here? Jake literally gets drunk so that he can intentionally be careless. These characters actually enjoy being intoxicated simply because they're so fed up with actually living. It's sort of sad the more you think about it.
"Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people." This quote can be analyzed quite a bit. While Jake is drunk, once again, it's as if he actually uses it as a scapegoat out of his normal life. HIs friends "seemed" like nice people, and that's an emotion Jake would like to feel for them, but he knows very well he can't feel that way when he's sober. Being sober for him and his friends simply isn't fun enough.
"I was very angry. Somehow they always made me angry. I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure." This quote doesn't necessarily follow the existential pattern like the rest of the quotes, but this quote just made me really see how much of an angry person Jake is. And the only time he is a little tolerable when he's drunk… I can't stress that point