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A 4 page paper which examines the development of Jake Barnes in Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.” No additional sources cited.
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to find their identity after WWI. They are characters who, for the most part, seem stuck in their pointless realities, struggling to change but somehow never really rising above their
problems. One character, Jake Barnes, is a man who suffered injury in the war and is now impotent. He is in love with a very outgoing and unstable woman, Brett,
a woman who does not really know what she wants in life. The following paper examines how Jake has developed by the end of the novel, examining how he may
well be a character who has changed and grown. Jake Barnes In looking at Jakes development at the end of the novel we must first look at what
he was like, in relationship to Brett, closer to the beginning of the novel. As mentioned, he is in love with Brett, but Brett, who also loves him, has told
him that because he is impotent she cannot really marry him for she cannot live a life without sex. Jake, however, is determined to desire her and love her no
matter how cruel and dismissive she is to him. In one quote, from Chapter 4, we see how he almost seems to seek out the misery of loving her, as
Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I
thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing" (Hemingway 34). This tone is very self indulgent and provides us with
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