The Sun Also Rises
(Ernest Hemingway)
"The Sun Also Rises" brings us all to the atmosphere of Paris of the 1920's. All the non-stop partying and the glamour of the loose-living of the expatriated Americans, who depended on the family fortunes back at the states, is shown through the eyes of Jake Barnes. Jake takes the voice on this novel, telling his story, the crazy and self-destructive life of a man, madly in love with a woman of a possessive and disturbing beauty but incapable of changing her own destiny: Brett Ashley. The path of their love takes them (and the reader) right to the Spanish fiesta, where all the excesses and extremes are permitted, and where the culture and nature of Spain (the bullfights, the weather, the streets and the behaviour of the locals) seems to take control of the spirit of the characters of the novel. Passion, jealousy, ecstasy, despair, all feelings mix-up towards a convulsion of attitudes, of actions and happenings, all- together exposing the unbearable truth: the impossibility of mad a love. This novel stays as one of the most magnificent portraits of the Lost Generation: Jake, Brett, Cohn, Bill. The perspective of finding happiness on the succession of good present moments, the moral degradation, and the damage left by the war (World War I) specially the mysterious wound that left Jack sexually incapable. The title gives the false sense of hope propelled through the entire book: the sun also rises, stays for the fact that, day after day, the sun rises once again, but not for something different; day after day, the sun rises, the same, always the same, just like all the characters on this book, condemned to follow the path drawn by their destiny, without any kind of hope, implicit on the final dialogue.
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