The Sun Also Rises Chapter 14
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Please analyze and comment upon this extract from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
The Sun Also Rises is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published in 1926. The author is a very famous American writer and journalist whose style had an important influence on XXth century's authors. He also won a Pulitzer for Fiction in 1953 and a Nobel prize in Literature in 1954. The Sun Also Rises is his first fictional novel, it describes the travel from Paris to Pamplona of a group of British and American expatriates. This excerpt from The Sun Also Rises comes from the fourteenth chapter of the novel. It is about a man who struggles with his own thoughts and his idea of life and of the world, while he is trying to sleep, after he drank too much. This man is drunk, at first he gets to bed and starts to read a book he had already read, but he is distracted by some of his roommates who are coming back home. He then starts to close his eyes and wants to sleep, but he cannot, so he begins to think, about women, about himself, and then about some aspects of his life which leads him to indicate his vision of the world to the reader. Therefore we can ask ourselves how this excerpt shows a man fighting against his own fears and struggling with the reality of his life, and his assessment of friendship, money, reality and language. This writing will highlight firstly the importance of alcohol and regret in the narrator's life, and secondly the odd relationship this narrator has to money and how he links money to life.
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First of all, the narrator who is the main character of the text, explains that he is drunk, but the events that led to this state are hazy, not explained, merely implied. The fact that it is written in the third sentence of the chapter shows that this information is quite important, it highlights the state of mind of the narrator, and point out his own awareness of his condition. Though he
Please analyze and comment upon this extract from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
The Sun Also Rises is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published in 1926. The author is a very famous American writer and journalist whose style had an important influence on XXth century's authors. He also won a Pulitzer for Fiction in 1953 and a Nobel prize in Literature in 1954. The Sun Also Rises is his first fictional novel, it describes the travel from Paris to Pamplona of a group of British and American expatriates. This excerpt from The Sun Also Rises comes from the fourteenth chapter of the novel. It is about a man who struggles with his own thoughts and his idea of life and of the world, while he is trying to sleep, after he drank too much. This man is drunk, at first he gets to bed and starts to read a book he had already read, but he is distracted by some of his roommates who are coming back home. He then starts to close his eyes and wants to sleep, but he cannot, so he begins to think, about women, about himself, and then about some aspects of his life which leads him to indicate his vision of the world to the reader. Therefore we can ask ourselves how this excerpt shows a man fighting against his own fears and struggling with the reality of his life, and his assessment of friendship, money, reality and language. This writing will highlight firstly the importance of alcohol and regret in the narrator's life, and secondly the odd relationship this narrator has to money and how he links money to life.
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First of all, the narrator who is the main character of the text, explains that he is drunk, but the events that led to this state are hazy, not explained, merely implied. The fact that it is written in the third sentence of the chapter shows that this information is quite important, it highlights the state of mind of the narrator, and point out his own awareness of his condition. Though he