The sun also rises

THE SUN ALSO RISES
E R N E S T H E M I N G W A Y
Presented by Tam Le
Guided by Professor Sutliff
Course: Eng 112 – S3

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
 The Sun Also Rises was written in 1926 by Ernest
Hemingway when he worked as a correspondent in Paris.
 Hemingway was an American author and journalist
 The Sun Also Rises was his first novel
 Its creation was influenced by the “Lost Generation”
 The "Lost Generation" defines a sense of moral loss or
aimlessness apparent in literary figures during the 1920s

HEMINGWAY’S
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INTRODUCTION TO THE TERM
PAPER
Thesis statement: The two main characters Jake and Brett are depicted as
typical representatives of those who possess a great deal of power but use
it with generosity and tolerance toward others while experiencing both
personal and spiritual alienation, resulting in their desire to escape from
reality.

 The novel portrays the images of Jake and Brett who
exert a great deal of influence over each other and
over others as well, but they control with generosity
and tolerance, not with cruelty.
 The first person controlled that we are able to see easily is Robert
Cohn and the controller is Brett.
 Another place for Brett to rule is Mike Campbell who is a
bankrupt alcoholic.
 Another person who is also under Brett’s domination is Count
Mippipopolous.
 Brett’s final subject in the novel is the young matador, Pedro
Romero, who is fifteen years less than her

exert a great deal of influence over each other and
over others as well, but they control with generosity
and tolerance, not with cruelty.
 Jake is ruled by Brett, but he is also the only one in the novel who
truly imposes his control back over her
 Jake is always a solid shoulder for Brett to lean her head against
anytime she feels tired and needs someone to talk with.
 The way Jake exerts his influence over Brett is with generosity
and tolerance.
 He is willing to face the anger of his friends, the contempt of the
Montana hotel owner, and the possible destruction of the young
bullfighter, to arrange Brett’s meeting with Romero.

exert a great deal of influence over each other and over
others as well, but they control with generosity and
tolerance, not with cruelty.
 Brett behaves towards other characters in the same way as Jake
does to her.
 She rejects Robert Cohn not to take up with another man, but rather
because she thinks he is not manly enough
 Mike, someone to travel with who was in worse shape than herself
and thus in no position to judge her.
 Jake, true affection and understanding, as well as staunch support
without sexual claims
 Brett also decides not to sleep with and leave the Count regardless of
the big amount of money he is able to offer her.
 She sends Romero away not to ruin his life.

 Jake and Brett are trapped within the circle of both
personal and spiritual alienation.
 personal alienation.
 They both are impotent of love.
 Jake’s alienation results from his physical injury in the war
 Brett’s alienation originates from her unsatisfied quest for
love.
 Barnes lacks the power to control love’s strength and durability.
 Brett has a lot of affairs and ignores the fact that she is engaged.
 Their frustrated love serves as the basis for the estrangement
they both experience.

 Jake and Brett are trapped within the circle of both
personal and spiritual alienation.
 Spiritual alienation.
 Jake and Brett both are alienated from religion and from God
 Jake expresses his unwillingness to accept his disconnection
from God and his religion does not seem to matter much in his
life.
 “I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a
rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do
about it, at least for a while ... I only wished I felt religious
and maybe I would the next time” (Hemingway 195)
 Brett is absolutely not a religious person
• it only makes her “damned nervous,” since it never does
her any good (Hemingway 195)
• “I’m damned bad for a religious atmosphere” (Hemingway
195)

What is the result of their alienation?
The personal and spiritual alienation, in turn,
constitutes itself as an invisible force pushing Jake
and Brett toward a desire to remove themselves from
reality.

 Their wish to escape from miserable reality is
inevitably a sequential consequence of their
incapability to deal with what they have been faced
with.
 Two way of getting themselves out of the shallow
world.
 Immersing in the unconscious pleasure of alcoholic beverages.
 Their daily lives are surrounded with wine and wine.
 Each day becomes a replication of the day before
 Going on trips to enjoy outside world.
 They seem to be looking for a specific place where they feel
comfortable to settle themselves

 their wish to do that does not indicate that they
surrender themselves to the reality but embodies
their thirst and fight for a better life.
 Alpaslan Toker shares his idea that “The universal appeal of the
other characters in Hemingway's novel managed to reflect every sort of
person in the Lost Generation. They ranged from the broken exiles, who
had acknowledged their barren and meaningless lives to the expatriates
who had managed to recognize the moral and spiritual decay of society
but were determined not to surrender themselves to the shallow existence
that it presented” (30).

CONCLUSION
Although they possess power, generosity toward others, they both
experience personal and spiritual alienation, leading to their thirst to escape
from their own shallow world.
Those characteristics themselves of the two main characters exert their
influence over the whole theme and also create very much of the meaning
of the story

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