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This 6 page paper discusses the theme of love as portrayed in Ernest Hemingway's book, The Sun Also Rises. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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search for inner truth that one can say draws the reader to identify with his characters. The Sun Also Rises can be said to have been Hemingways first breakthrough novel
which catapulted him into the international spotlight. The reason it was so popular during its day was that it seems to have been the first book to adequately capture the
sense of disillusionment and disorientation that many of that generation felt immediately following WWI. As such, then, the theme of love reflects this disillusionment through the interaction of the main
character, Jake, and his final conclusions about that most human of emotions. The novel, itself, focuses on a span of time between a group of friends who wander aimlessly around
Europe, from one party to the next, searching for that lost piece of themselves that the war had taken from them. In other words, they searched for love, and a
definition of love, in all the wrong places. The main character, Jake, seems to be the most affected by the search, whereas the others are simply reactionary to whichever circumstances
they find themselves in(Clifford, see also Kotas). Jake Barnes, the hero in The Sun Also Rises is a wounded soldier. His wound, both inner and outer, have to do with
the position of the wound. He has been wounded in a way that precludes his ability to have sex and this seems to serve as the tragic catalyst that propels
Jake throughout the whole novel. It is the reason that he seems insecure about his own masculinity and his ability to give and receive his idea of love. The fact
that Brett, the love of his life, refuses to enter into a relationship with him compounds this problem. Jake, like Hemingway, tends to portray those characteristics evident in many of
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